Manan Kapoor an Indian writer and translator. A Map of Longings: The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali, forthcoming from Penguin Random House India, is his latest work. His debut novel The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky was shortlisted for Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Puruskar 2017. In 2019, he was a writer-in-residence at Sangam House Writers' Residency. His writings have appeared in The Caravan Magazine, Boston Review, The Hindu, Stockholm Review of Literature, Scroll, The Wire, and Firstpost among others. He lives in Chandigarh.