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Abhimanyu Acharya

Abhimanyu Acharya is a multilingual fiction writer, playwright, translator, and scholar currently based out of Ontario, Canada where he is a postdoctoral associate at Western University. He has published two collections of stories and his plays have been performed in different cities across India, the US, and Canada. He has won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar, the Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellowship, the Sanhita Manch playwriting award, and the Majdi-Bou Matar scholarship. Moreover, he has thrice been longlisted for the Toto Award for creative writing and was nominated for the American Distinguished Dissertation Award. His works have appeared in literary journals such as Identity Theory, Out of Print, Hakara, Usawa Literary Review, Gulmohar Quarterly, Readingroom, and Karvaan India, amongst others. He currently serves as the creative and academic writing specialist at Kings University College in London, Ontario, and has previously served as the assistant artistic director at SAWITRI Theatre in Ontario, Canada.


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