Abhay K. is the author of the national bestseller Nalanda: How it Changed the World (Penguin Random House) and a dozen poetry books, including, Celestial, Stray Poems, Monsoon, The Magic of Madagascar and The Alphabets of Latin America. He is the editor of The Book of Bihari Literature, The Bloomsbury Book of Great Indian Love Poems, Capitals, New Brazilian Poems and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems.
His poems have appeared in over a hundred literary magazines, including Poetry Salzburg Review and Asia Literary Review. His ‘Earth Anthem’ has been translated into over 150 languages. He received the SAARC Literary Award (2013) and was invited to record his poems at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., in 2018. His translations of Kalidasa’s Meghaduta and Ritusamhara from Sanskrit won him the KLF Poetry Book of the Year Award (2020–21). His translations of the first Magahi novel Fool Bahadur and The Hanuman Chalisa have been widely acclaimed.
Abhay’s paintings on the Buddhist philosophy of ‘Sunyata’ have been exhibited at Bihar Museum, Patna, the National Museum, New Delhi, Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad among other places.
Abhay K. can be reached at www.abhayk.com.