Indrapramit Das

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Indrapramit Das (also known as Indra Das) is an Indian science fiction, fantasy and cross-genre writer, critic and editor from Kolkata. [1] His fiction has appeared in several publications including Clarkesworld Magazine , Asimov’s Science Fiction , Strange Horizons , and Tor.com, and has been widely anthologized in collections including Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction. [2] [3] [4] [5]

His debut novel The Devourers (Penguin Books India, 2015; Del Rey, 2016) won the 29th Lambda Award in the SF/F/Horror category. [6] The Lambda Award celebrates excellence in LGBT literature. The Devourers was shortlisted for 2016 Crawford Award, and included in the 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List. [7] [8] It was also nominated for the Shakti Bhatt Prize and the Tata Live! Literature First Book Award in India. [9] [10]

Das is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar and a graduate of the 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop. [11] He completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. [12]

He is a former consulting editor of speculative fiction for Indian publisher Juggernaut Books. [13] [14]

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