Writer's Name: Sharanya Manivannan
Country/Origin: India/Sri Lanka
Title of blog: Sharanya Manivannan
Writer's Bio: Sharanya Manivannan was born in India in 1985, grew up in Sri Lanka and South East Asia, and has lived in Chennai since 2007. Her first book of poems, Witchcraft, from which this selection is taken, was published in 2008 to critical acclaim, and was described by Singapore Literature Prize winner Ng Yi-Sheng as being “sensuous and spiritual, delicate and dangerous and as full as the moon reflected in a knife” in The Straits Times. Sharanya’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Drunken Boat, Softblow, White Whale Review, Kritya, Clementine, Istanbul Literary Review, Danse Macabre, A Café In Space and Pratilipi. A personal column, The Venus Flytrap, appears biweekly in The New Indian Express. She was the recipient of the Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for 2008-2009.
Recent Publications:
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Country/Origin: India/Sri Lanka
Title of blog: Sharanya Manivannan
Writer's Bio: Sharanya Manivannan was born in India in 1985, grew up in Sri Lanka and South East Asia, and has lived in Chennai since 2007. Her first book of poems, Witchcraft, from which this selection is taken, was published in 2008 to critical acclaim, and was described by Singapore Literature Prize winner Ng Yi-Sheng as being “sensuous and spiritual, delicate and dangerous and as full as the moon reflected in a knife” in The Straits Times. Sharanya’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Drunken Boat, Softblow, White Whale Review, Kritya, Clementine, Istanbul Literary Review, Danse Macabre, A Café In Space and Pratilipi. A personal column, The Venus Flytrap, appears biweekly in The New Indian Express. She was the recipient of the Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for 2008-2009.
Recent Publications:
Publication link 1
Publication link 2
Publication link 3
Publication link 4
(If you are an Asian/mixed-Asian writer who blogs or has a personal website, e-mail us at asiawritesmail [at] gmail.com. Please provide the information found above and we will let everyone know about it.)
Visit his/her blog here.
