Kanishka Gupta

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Kanishka Gupta runs Writer Side Literary Agency, the leading South Asian literary agency he founded in India. Among his notable authors are Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi (International Booker winners for Heart Lamp, 2025), Daisy Rockwell (International Booker winner for Tomb of Sand, 2022), Avni Doshi (Burnt Sugar, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020), and Jerry Pinto (Windham-Campbell Prize, 2016). He has worked closely with the 2022 Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on multiple projects. In addition to his publishing endeavors, Kanishka curated a critically acclaimed series for Scroll.in titled Publishing and the Pandemic, featuring reports, commentaries, and first-person accounts on the impact of the pandemic on publishing in the Indian subcontinent and beyond.