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Avtar Singh

Avtar Singh is an author and editor. His publications include short stories “A Scandal in Punjab” (2024), “The Corpse Bearer” (shortlisted for the Subnivean Prize 2023), novels The Beauty of These Present Things (2000) and Necropolis (2014), Into the Forest (2024), and non-fiction work in Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Nikkei Asian Review, India Today, and Biblio. He was a summer fellow at the MacDowell Colony (2018), founding editor-in-chief of Time Out Delhi, and managing editor of The Indian Quarterly. He has lived and worked in India, the US and China, and is now based in Germany.