Manan Kapoor

Manan Kapoor is an Indian novelist and writer. He was born on 8 November 1993 in Shimla, India, and grew up in Chandigarh. He studied at The Gurukul, Panchkula and later at Bhavan Vidyalaya, Panchkula. He completed his undergraduate studies from Panjab University in 2015. While studying there, at the age of 19, he started working on his debut novel, The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky. The book was published on 19th April 2016 by Leadstart Publications, Mumbai.
The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky addresses the sensitive dilemma in the lives of Kashmiris in the early nineties, the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits, and the advent of the insurgency in Kashmir. Kapoor was deeply influenced by Basharat Peer’s memoirs Curfewed Night. Nevertheless, he wanted his novel, unlike Peer’s, to go beyond the region’s politics and to intimately touch upon the private lives of its people.
His works have appeared in The Stockholm Review of Literature, Coldnoon Travel-Writing Quarterly, Sbcltr, Indian Review of Literature and other publications. The book has been called "a powerful, and thought-provoking tale about growing up in war-torn Kashmir." His paper, "The Refrain And Beyond — The Development of Ghazals in English in Twentieth-Century America", was published by The Ghazal Page.
He currently resides in New Delhi, where he is pursuing his Masters in English Literature and Creative Writing at Ambedkar University, Delhi.
Works
* The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky (2016; ISBN 978-9352015849)
* "The Refrain And Beyond — The Development of Ghazals in English in Twentieth-Century America"

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