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Vivek Shanbhag
Vivek Shanbhag writes in Kannada. He has published five short story collections, three novels, and two plays. He was the founding editor of the pioneering literary journal Desha Kaala. His critically-acclaimed novel Ghachar Ghochar is widely translated. It was one of the New York Times critics top books of 2017, one of Vulture 100 best books of the 21st century, and a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction. An engineer by training, Vivek is a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Ashoka University and lives in Bangalore.
