Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih was born and brought up in Sohra, Meghalaya. He writes poetry, drama and fiction in Khasi and English. His latest work is the 1024-page debut novel, "Funeral Nights" (Context/Westland Amazon). He is the author of "The Yearning of Seeds" (HarperCollins), "Time’s Barter: Haiku and Senryu" (HarperCollins), "Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends" (Penguin), and the co-editor of "Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from Northeast India" (Penguin).
He has published poems and stories in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Wasafiri, The New Welsh Review, PEN International, The Literary Review, Karavan, The Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Cordite Poetry Review, Poetry International Web, The Indian Quarterly, Down to Earth, The Hindu Business Line, Indian Literature, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India, Pilgrim’s India, Day’s End Stories and others.
His awards include the first North-East Poetry Award (Tripura, 2004), the first Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah National Award for tribal literature (Madhya Pradesh, 2008) and a Tagore Fellowship (IIAS, Shimla, 2018). He teaches literature at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.
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He has published poems and stories in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Wasafiri, The New Welsh Review, PEN International, The Literary Review, Karavan, The Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Cordite Poetry Review, Poetry International Web, The Indian Quarterly, Down to Earth, The Hindu Business Line, Indian Literature, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India, Pilgrim’s India, Day’s End Stories and others.
His awards include the first North-East Poetry Award (Tripura, 2004), the first Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah National Award for tribal literature (Madhya Pradesh, 2008) and a Tagore Fellowship (IIAS, Shimla, 2018). He teaches literature at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.
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