Prakash Kona Reddy (born 1967) is an Indian novelist, essayist, poet and theorist who lives in Hyderabad, India. He is currently a professor at the Department of English Literature, School of English Literary Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad. He writes in English, and is the author of the many books to date. Bibliography Conjurer of Nights How I Invented Myself as "Prakash Kona" Nunc Stans [Creative Non-fiction: 2009, CROSSING CHAOS enigmatic ink, Ontario, Canada] Words on Lips of a Stranger [2005, Writers Workshop, Calcutta] Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace [Fiction: 2005, Fugue State Press, New York] Literary Criticism: A Study of Pluralism (Wittgenstein, Chomsky and Derrida) [Theory: 2004, Wisdom House Publications, Leeds, England] Streets that Smell of Dying Roses Poems for Her (as Kona Prakash Reddy)* [Poetry: 1999, Writers Workshop, Calcutta] You and Other Poems (as Kona Prakash Reddy)* [Poetry: 1997, Writers Workshop, Calcutta] Other works, including essays and fictional vignettes, are published widely on the Internet. In August 2010 Kona contributed to an eBook collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State edited by Alan Morrison. Themes His fiction is highly unusual, an experimental combination of free-floating emotion and political theory that can depict, for example, a city or a love relationship in an ambiguous, flowing, non-concrete and yet highly personal and heartfelt manner. References 1967 births Living people Indian male essayists Indian male novelists Indian male poets 20th-century Indian novelists Indian postmodern writers 20th-century Indian poets 20th-century Indian essayists Writers from Hyderabad, India 20th-century Indian male writers