Kiran Bhat | |
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Born | Jonesboro, Georgia, U.S. | April 21, 1990
Nationality | Indian-American |
Alma mater | New York University |
Occupation(s) | novelist, poet, short-story writer |
Years active | 2013-present |
Known for | Poetry collections Autobiografia, Speaking in Tongues (2022) and the novel We of the Forsaken World (2020) |
Website | kiranbhatweldgeist |
Kiran Bhat (born 21 April 1990) is an Indian–American novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic and translator, who has written the poetry collections Autobiografia, Speaking in Tongues (2022),[1] and the novel We of the Forsaken World (2020).[2][3][4]
Bhat was born to doctors Anu and Subra Bhat and raised in Jonesboro, Georgia, United States.[5][6] He began writing at the age of 17.[7][8] Bhat graduated from New York University.[9] He spent time studying abroad in Spain from 2010 to 2011.[10]
In 2013 Bhat published his first book, titled Early Stories, which is a collection of stories written during his college years and subsequent time period he spent traveling.[11]
In 2017 Bhat published Accepting My Place, a collection of nonfiction journals written between 2011 and 2014.[12]
In 2019 he published a Kannada-language travelogue titled Tirugaatha.[13] Other books he released during this year include the poetry collection Autobiografia[2] and the Mandarin-language poetry collection Kiran Speaks.[13][14]
In 2020 Bhat published a Portuguese story collection titled Afora, Adentro[15] and his novel We of the forsaken world...[16][17][18] The latter was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews.[19] It is a short story cycle involving sixteen narratives based in four imagined places replicating the industrialising parts of our world.[20]
In 2021 Bhat announced that he was working on a new novel, titled Girar.[21][22] Girar is released as a digital novel in monthly installments, with each story set in another country of the world.[23][24]
Bhat published the poetry collection Speaking in Tongues: Poems in Spanish, Mandarin, and Turkish through the publisher Red River in 2022.[25][26] Bhat also contributed the poem "A Reporter Asked" to the poetry anthology Amity: Peace Poems, which was edited by Sahana Ahmed and published in December 2022.[27]
Bhat has also been a contributor to publications such as The Brooklyn Rail,[28] The Kenyon Review,[29] Colorado Review,[30] Eclectica Magazine,[31] and The Chakkar.[32] He has also worked as a Spanish to English literary translator for poets Carlos Lopez, Antonio Guzman Gomez, and the Snichimal Vayuchil.[33][34]
Bhat is of Kannadiga origin. He has traveled to over 147 countries and held residence in 18 cities.[32][18] He resides in Mumbai, India.[35] He speaks several languages including English, Kannada, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, and Turkish.[23][24]