Prakash Kona

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Prakash Kona (born July 14, 1967) is an Indian novelist, essayist, poet and theorist who lives in Hyderabad, India. He writes in English, and is the author of six books to date:

• Words on Lips of a Stranger [Poetry: 2006, Writers Workshop, Calcutta]
• Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace [Fiction: 2005, Fugue State Press, New York]
• Literary Criticism: A Study of Pluralism (Wittgenstein, Chomsky and Derrida) [Theory: 2004, Wisdom House Publications, Leeds, England]
• Streets that Smell of Dying Roses [Fiction: 2003, Fugue State Press, New York; also Yeti Books, Calicut, India]
• Poems for Her (as Kona Prakash Reddy) [Poetry: 1999, Writers Workshop, Calcutta]
• You and Other Poems (as Kona Prakash Reddy) [Poetry: 1997, Writers Workshop, Calcutta]

Other works, including essays and fictional vignettes, are published widely on the Internet.

His fiction is highly unusual, an experimental combination of free-floating emotion and political theory that can depict, for example, a city or a love relationship in an ambiguous, flowing, non-concrete and yet highly personal and heartfelt manner.