Manan Kapoor is a writer based in New Delhi. His debut novel, The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky, was shortlisted for Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Award in 2017. His second book, a biography of Agha Shahid Ali, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House.
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Manan Kapoor is a writer based in New Delhi. His debut novel, The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky, was shortlisted for Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Award in 2017. His second book, a biography of Agha Shahid Ali, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House.
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