Prakash Kona Explained

Prakash Kona Reddy
Birth Date:	July 14, 1967
Birth Place:	Hyderabad, India
Alma Mater:	University of Mississippi University of Hyderabad Osmania University
Genre:	Marxism, a history of Anarchism, Avant-garde poetry, Third World Resistance writing, polemical cinema
Notableworks:	Conjurer of nights

Prakash Kona Reddy (born 1967) is an Indian novelist, essayist, poet and theorist who lives in Hyderabad, India. He was a professor of English literature at The English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad campus).

He writes in English, and is the author of the many books to date.

Bibliography

• Conjurer of Nights^[1]
• How I Invented Myself as "Prakash Kona"^[2]
• Nunc Stans [Creative Non-fiction: 2009, [[CROSSING CHAOS enigmatic ink]], Ontario, Canada]
• Words on Lips of a Stranger [2005, Writers Workshop, Calcutta]
• Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace [Fiction: 2005, [[Fugue State Press]], New York]^[3]
• Literary Criticism: A Study of Pluralism (Wittgenstein, Chomsky and Derrida) [Theory: 2004, Wisdom House Publications, Leeds, England]
• Streets that Smell of Dying Roses^[4]
• 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^{[5] [6]} and fictional vignettes, are published widely on the Internet.

In August 2010 Kona contributed to an eBook collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State edited by Alan Morrison.^[7]

Themes

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.

Notes and References

1. Book: Kona . Prakash . Conjurer of Nights . 2012 . Waterloo Press . 9781906742515 . 43 . 8 July 2020.
2. Book: Kona . Prakash . How I Invented Myself as "Prakash Kona" . Amarajita Sahita Prakashana . 9788190428989 . 143 . 8 July 2020.
3. Book: Kona . Prakash . Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace . 2005 . Fugue State Press . 9781879193147 . 160 . 8 July 2020.
4. Book: k . Prakash . Streets that Smell of Dying Roses . 2003 . Fugue State Press . 9781879193109 . 246 . 8 July 2020.
5. Web site: Kona . Prakash . Some Issues With #BlackLivesMatter . Eurasia Review . 8 July 2020.
6. Web site: Kona . Prakash . What India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi And Members Of Opposition Should Read . Eurasia Review . 8 July 2020.
7. http://www.therecusant.org.uk The Recusant eZine