
Manan Kapoor
Manan Kapoor is a writer, poetry critic, and translator. A Map of Longings: The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali (Yale University Press / Penguin Random House India) is his latest work. His first novel, The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky, was the finalist for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2017. His writing and criticism have appeared in Boston Review, The LA Review of Books, Harvard Review, The Caravan Magazine, and Scroll among others. He is a Ledbury Poetry Critic and has received fellowships from James Merrill House and Sangam House Writers’ Residency. He is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Harvard University.