Ampat Varghese Koshy

Dr Koshy A. V. is, presently, an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Mount Carmel College Autonomous in Bangalore and was prior to this an Assistant Professor in Jazan, KSA. He has written, co-written or co-edited books of criticism, short fiction and poetry to his credit with authors like A.V. Varghese, Gorakhnath Gangane, Angel Meredith, and Bina Biswas as well as others like Jagari Mukherjee, Deepika Chand, Santosh Bakaya, and Ramendra Kumar among others, and one of them, his most read book, ‘A Treatise on Poetry for Beginners’, was reprinted once as ‘Art of Poetry.’

He is a Pushcart Poetry Prize nominee (2012) and several times Highly Commended Poet in Destiny Poets UK ICOP (2013, 2014) and he was thrice featured in Camel Saloon’s The Hump for best poem/editor’s pick and twice for best poem in Destiny Poets UK’s Website. Even as a child he won the Shankar’s International award for writing. His book of fiction Scream and Other Urbane Legends was nominated for Hindu Literary Fiction Prize in 2014  and he won the best researcher award in Jazan University, KSA, in 2018. His books have been to prestigious exhibitions like the Frankfurt Book Fair etc.

He has won prizes/certificates from Italy (best foreign poem)and USA (Spillwords and NaNoWriMo) for his poetry. He is a reputed critic and expert on Samuel Beckett and his book on him is found in Ivy League libraries, besides his being an intriguing literary theoretician, editing Fasihi magazine. Some of his other books include Wake Up, India: Essays for Our Times, co-authored with Dr Bina Biswas and Mahesh Dattani’s Plays: Staging the Invisibles co-edited with Bina Biswas, The Significant Anthology edited with Reena Prasad and Michele Baron (177 contributors), and a collection of poetry with Bina Biswas and Pramila Khadun titled Igniting Key etc.

Many of his books, especially the ones with Dr. Santosh Bakaya, have been Amazon best sellers in India and abroad.

He has edited or co-edited many other books including A Man Outside History by Naseer Ahmed Nasir and Inklinks: An Anthology by Poets Corner. He instituted the Reuel International Literary Prize in 2014 and runs an autism NPO with his wife Anna Gabriel. The first prize was given to Dr. Santosh Bakaya. He administers with the help of others the literary group Rejected Stuff/The Significant League on Facebook. His poems have been translated into Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, German, Turkish, Italian and Malayalam. His first book  Wrighteings:In Media Res was translated into six European languages.

He won World Bank’s Urgent Evoke and participated in European Union’s Edgeryders. He has been interviewed extensively. A research paper has been written in his poetry. He has other degrees, diplomas and certificates to his credit besides his doctorate on Beckett.

He has some 26 to 37 books with his name on the cover. He attributes everything to Jesus’s grace and the prayers and good wishes of his loved ones.

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