Kiran Bhat

Kiran Bhat (born 21 April 1990) is an Indian–American novelist, poet, short-story writer,  literary critic and translator, who has written the poetry collections  Autobiografia, Speaking in Tongues (2022),[1] and the novel We of the Forsaken World (2020).[2][3][4]

Early life

Bhat was born to doctors Anu and Subra Bhat and raised in Jonesboro, Georgia, United States.[5][6] He began writing at the age of 17.[7][8] Bhat graduated from New York University.[9] He spent time studying abroad in Spain from 2010 to 2011.[10]

Career

In 2013 Bhat published his first book, titled Early Stories, which is a collection of stories written during his college years and subsequent time period he spent traveling.[11]

In 2017 Bhat published Accepting My Place, a collection of nonfiction journals written between 2011 and 2014.[12]

In 2019 he published a Kannada-language travelogue titled Tirugaatha.[13] Other books he released during this year include the poetry collection Autobiografia[2] and the Mandarin-language poetry collection Kiran Speaks.[13][14]

In 2020 Bhat published a Portuguese story collection titled Afora, Adentro[15] and his novel We of the forsaken world...[16][17][18]  The latter was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews.[19]

In 2021 Bhat announced that he was working on a new novel, titled Girar.[20][21]

Bhat published the poetry collection Speaking in Tongues: Poems in Spanish, Mandarin, and Turkish through the publisher Red River in 2022.[22][23] Bhat also contributed the poem "A Reporter Asked" to the poetry anthology Amity: Peace Poems, which was edited by Sahana Ahmed and published in December 2022.[24]

Bhat has also been a contributor to publications such as The Brooklyn Rail,[25] The Kenyon Review,[26] Colorado Review,[27] Eclectica Magazine,[28] and The Chakkar.[29]

Selected bibliography
  • Early Stories (2013)[30]
  • Accepting My Place (2017)[12]
  • Tirugaatha (2019)[31]
  • Autobiografia (2019)[12]
  • We of the forsaken world (2020)[32][33][34]
  • Girar (2021)[20]
  • Speaking in Tongues (2022)[1]

Book contributions
  • Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English: 2020–2021 by Many Poets[35]
  • The Best Asian Short Stories 2021 by Zafar Anjum[36]
  • Amity: Peace Poems (2022)[24]

References
  1. "Indian literature: Page turners 2022". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  2. "Kiran Bhat's Book Launch: We of the Forsaken World". Global Atlanta. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  3. "Author Kiran Bhat and Book: We of the Forsaken World". www.khabar.com. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  4. ""I like the idea of channeling the sorts of stories that humans like to come back to..."- Kiran Bhat (Author, Girar)". KITAAB. 16 March 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  5. "Circling the World: An Interview with Kiran Bhat". PRISM international. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  6. Veena (10 January 2020). "I try to compress our globe into a single narrative fictional space: Author Kiran Bhat". NRI Pulse. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  7. "A Fevers of the Mind Quick-9 Interview with Kiran Bhat". Fevers of the Mind. 16 August 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  8. "Kiran Bhat Interviewed by Paresh Tiwari – EKL REVIEW". Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  9. "NRI writer's travelogue 'Tirugata' released in city". Star of Mysore. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  10. Mellacheruvu, Abhinav (16 March 2018). "Meet Global Citizen and Writer Kiran Bhat". ROOSTERGNN. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  11. Early Stories. eBookIt.com. 20 April 2013. ISBN 978-1-4566-1657-1.
  12. B, K. (17 November 2017). Accepting My Place: The Early Journals. eBookIt.com. ISBN 978-1-4566-2928-1.
  13. "Kiran Bhat". Cordite Poetry Review. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  14. "What Rough Beast | Poem for 30 January 2020". Indolent Books. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  15. "What Rough Beast | Poem for 30 January 2020". Indolent Books. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  16. Editor_Kitaab (16 March 2021). ""I like the idea of channeling the sorts of stories that humans like to come back to..."- Kiran Bhat (Author, Girar)". KITAAB. Retrieved 6 February 2023. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  17. "Author Kiran Bhat and Book: We of the Forsaken World". www.khabar.com. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  18. "Edinboro Now". www.edinboronow.com. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  19. WE OF THE FORSAKEN WORLD... | Kirkus Reviews.
  20. "Circling the World: An Interview with Kiran Bhat". PRISM international. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  21. Veena (12 April 2021). "With Girar, author Kiran Bhat is reinventing storytelling and publishing". NRI Pulse. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  22. "Book Review: Speaking in Tongues: Poems in Spanish, Mandarin, and Turkish". Outlookindia. 12 November 2022.
  23. "Indian literature: Page turners 2022". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  24. "A Poetic Call for Peace". The Wire. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  25. Bhat, Kiran. "https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/Kiran-Bhat". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 6 February 2023. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  26. Bhat, Kiran (16 November 2020). "Dancing on the Back of God: A Profile of Kazim Ali, A Poet at His Strongest « Kenyon Review Blog". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  27. "The Voice of Sheila Chandra". Center for Literary Publishing. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  28. "A Poet's Journey: a Conversation with Douglas Cole—Interview by Kiran Bhat—Eclectica Magazine 24n4". www.eclectica.org. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  29. "Kiran Bhat". The Chakkar. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  30. Bhat, Kiran (20 April 2013). Early Stories. eBookIt.com. ISBN 978-1-4566-1657-1.
  31. "Kiran Bhat". Cordite Poetry Review. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  32. "we of the forsaken world... | Iguana Books". www.iguanabooks.ca. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  33. Review, Dactyl (9 December 2019). "we, the forsaken world, by Kiran Bhat". Dactyl Review. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  34. George, Abigail (13 May 2020). "On the page the novelist-poet questions in Kiran Bhat's seminal work: We of the Forsaken World". Modern Diplomacy. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  35. Poets, Many (15 June 2021). Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English: 2020–2021. Amazon Digital Services LLC – KDP Print US. ISBN 978-81-952401-0-4.
  36. Anjum, Zafar; Vethamani, Malachi Edwin (2021). The Best Asian Short Stories 2021. Kitaab. ISBN 978-981-18-0038-2.
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