Anil Menon

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Anil Menon
Born Kerala, India
OccupationWriter
Period2000s–present
Genre Speculative fiction, science fiction, children's literature
Notable worksInto the Night, Love In A Hot Climate, The Poincaré Sutra, The Beast With Nine Billion Feet, "The Coincidence Plot"
Website
anilmenon.com

Anil Menon is an Indian writer of speculative fiction, as well as a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Syracuse University, who has authored research papers and edited books on Evolutionary Algorithms. His research addressed the mathematical foundations of replicator systems, majorization, and reconstruction of probabilistic databases, in collaboration with professors Kishan Mehrotra, Chilukuri Mohan, and Sanjay Ranka. After working for several years as a computer scientist, he started to write fiction. His short stories and reviews have appeared in the anthology series Exotic Gothic , Strange Horizons , Interzone, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet , Chiaroscuro, Sybil's Garage , Apex Digest , and others.

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In 2009, Zubaan Books, India's leading feminist press, published his debut young adult novel The Beast With Nine Billion Feet. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award and the 2010 Parallax Prize. [1] [2] In 2009, in conjunction with Vandana Singh and Suchitra Mathur, he helped organize India's first in-residence, three-week speculative fiction workshop at IIT-Kanpur. He co-edited the anthology Breaking the Bow. [3] [4]

He is the author of the short story collection The Inconceivable Idea Of The Sun: Stories [5] [6] Menon’s novel, Half of What I Say [7] [8] was shortlisted for the 2016 The Hindu Literary Prize [9] . The Coincidence Plot (2013) [10] is his latest novel.

Along with Pervin Saket and Akshat Nigam, Menon co-founded the Kolam Writers' Workshop (previously called the Dum Pukht Writers’ Workshop). This annual two-week residential workshop, currently in its fifth iteration, is held at the Adishakti Theatre Complex in the former French colony Puducherry (Pondicherry) in Tamil Nadu.

He is editor-in-chief of The Bombay Literary Magazine.

Works

Short fiction

Children's fiction

Novels

Anthologies

Articles

Interviews

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