Indra Das

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Indra Das, who also publishes as Indrapramit Das, is an Indian writer, artist and editor who grew up in Kolkata, the city in which much of his fiction is set. His first novel, The Devourers, was published in India by Penguin in 2015 and in the United States by Del Rey in 2016; a dark fantasy of shape-changers in Mughal-era and present-day India, told through a professor's transcription of a stranger's manuscripts, it won the Lambda Literary Award and was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post. An Octavia E. Butler Scholar, he has published short fiction in genre magazines and anthologies in India, Britain and North America, and has worked as an editor and as an illustrator. The Devourers is generally counted as South Asian speculative fiction, combining historical fiction, fantasy and horror.

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• The Devourers (2015) · The Devourers Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 3 (1 won, 2 nomination)

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