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Indrapramit Das

いんだぷらみっと・だす

Indrapramit Das

Aliases: Indra Das

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
Kolkata, India
Nationality
Indian
Languages
English
Residence History
Kolkata, India → Vancouver, Canada

Career

Occupations
science fiction writer, fantasy writer, critic, editor
Active Years
2010-2024
Affiliations
Juggernaut Books (former consulting editor speculative fiction)
Influenced By
Octavia E. Butler
Nominations
Crawford Award shortlist (2016, The Devourers), Shakti Bhatt Prize nomination (The Devourers), Tata Live! Literature First Book Award nomination (The Devourers)

Education

Clarion West Writers Workshop
Writers Workshop
Period: 2012
Year of Graduation: 2012
Country: United States
Octavia E. Butler Scholarとして参加
University of British Columbia
Creative Writing
Degree: MFA
Country: Canada

Awards

Lambda Literary Award
2017
Work: The Devourers
Category: SF/F/Horror
Organization: Lambda Literary Foundation
Result: Winner
British Fantasy Award
2024
Work: The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
Category: Best Novella
Organization: British Fantasy Society
Result: Winner
Shirley Jackson Award
2019
Work: Kali_Na
Category: Short Fiction
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Devourers

2015 Fantasy/Horror

A novel exploring complex relationships between humans and shapeshifters.

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The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar

2023 Fantasy

A coming-of-age tale about a girl raising dragons in Kolkata's Bowbazar.

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Bibliography

  • Looking the Lopai in the Eyes (2010)
  • The Widow and the Xir (2011)
  • Weep for Day (2012)
  • Muo-Ka's Child (2012)
  • Sita's Descent (2012)
  • The Runner of n-Vamana (2013)
  • Karina Who Kissed Spacetime (2013)
  • The Little Begum (2014)
  • A Moon for the Unborn (2014)
  • The Muses of Shuyedan-18 (2015)
  • Psychopomp (2015)
  • Breaking Water (2016)
  • The Worldless (2017)
  • The Moon Is Not a Battlefield (2017)
  • The Shadow We Cast Through Time (2019)
  • The Song Between Worlds (2019)
  • A Shade of Dusk (2019)
  • Kali_Na (2019)
  • Incarnate (2020)
  • You Will Survive This Night (2021)
  • A Necessary Being (2021)
  • Here Comes Your Man (2022)
  • Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds (2022)
  • As Wayward Sisters, Hand in Hand (2023)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
cross-genrespeculative fiction
Recurring Motifs
identitymythological elementsIndian culture

Legacy

Internationally acclaimed Indian science fiction and fantasy writer, winner of Lambda Award, British Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award.

Trivia

  • Octavia E. Butler Scholar.
  • Graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop 2012.