Indrapramit Das

Indrapramit Das
Born
Kolkata, India
EducationFranklin & Marshall College (BA)
University of British Columbia (MFA)
OccupationsWriter, editor, critic
Writing career
Genresscience fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction
Notable awardsLambda Literary Award (2017)
Shirley Jackson Award (2019)
British Fantasy Award (2024)
Websiteindradas.com

Indrapramit Das (also known as Indra Das) is an Indian science fiction, fantasy, and cross-genre writer, critic, and editor from Kolkata. His fiction has appeared in several publications including Clarkesworld Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com, and has been widely anthologized in collections including Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction.

Background and education

Das is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar and a graduate of the 2012 Clarion West Writers Workshop. Das received a BA in Creative Writing from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he also studied film. He later completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Das is a former consulting editor of speculative fiction for Indian publisher Juggernaut Books.

Career

His debut novel, The Devourers, won the 29th Lambda Literary Award in the SF/F/Horror category. The novel was shortlisted for the 2016 Crawford Award and the 2017 Otherwise Award. It was included in the 2015 Locus Recommended Reading List and was nominated for the Shakti Bhatt Prize and the Tata Live! Literature First Book Award in India. The Devourers was originally published in 2015 by Penguin Books India and received North American distribution by Del Rey the following year.

Das has written about books, comics, TV, and film for publications the include Slant Magazine, Vogue India, Elle India, Strange Horizons, and Vancouver Weekly.

His short story "Kali_Na" won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction and made the honor list for the 2019 Parallax Award given by the Carl Brandon Society. His novelette "Breaking Water" was a finalist for the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award.

In 2023, Subterranean Press published his novella, The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, in both ebook and limited edition hard copy formats. Locus praised the novella, describing it as "a gorgeously written novella which is part coming-of-age tale, part love letter to fantasy, part family mystery, and part elegantly understated fable of identity." The book won the 2024 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella. It was a finalist for the 2024 Locus Award.

Das edited and wrote the introduction for the 2024 anthology Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art from MIT Press. The book is part of MIT Press's annual science fiction anthology series, Twelve Tomorrows. The anthology was named one of "The Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024" by Esquire. It was a finalist for the 2025 Ignyte Award for Anthology/Collected Works.

Das was nominated for the Ember Award at the 2025 Ignyte Awards.

Bibliography

Novels

  • The Devourers. Penguin Books India & Del Rey Books. 2015. ISBN 9781101967539.

Novellas

Short fiction

  • "Kolkata Sea", Flash Fiction Online (2010)
  • "Looking the Lopai in the Eyes", Redstone Science Fiction (2010)
  • "The Widow and the Xir", Apex Magazine (2011)
  • "Weep for Day", Asimov's Science Fiction (2012), reprinted in Clarkesworld (2015)
  • "Muo-Ka's Child", Clarkesworld (2012)
  • "Sita's Descent" (2012)
  • "The Runner of n-Vamana" (2013)
  • "Karina Who Kissed Spacetime", Apex Magazine (2013)
  • "The Little Begum", Steampunk World (2014)
  • "A Moon for the Unborn", Strange Horizons (2014)
  • "The Muses of Shuyedan-18", Asimov's Science Fiction (2015)
  • "Psychopomp", Interfictions Online (2015)
  • "Breaking Water", Tor.com (2016)
  • "The Worldless", Lightspeed Magazine (2017) (also appeared as: "Variant: The Wordless")
  • "The Moon Is Not a Battlefield", Infinity Wars (2017)
  • "The Shadow We Cast Through Time", New Suns (2019)
  • "The Song Between Worlds", Future Tense Fiction (2019)
  • "A Shade of Dusk" (2019)
  • "Kali_Na", The Mythic Dream (2019)
  • "Incarnate" (2020)
  • "The Road from Kothali", Verve Magazine (2020)
  • "You Will Survive This Night", Come Sit With Us By The Fire, Volume 2 (2021)
  • "A Necessary Being" (2021)
  • "Here Comes Your Man", Tasavvur (2022)
  • "Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds", Tor.com (2022)
  • "As Wayward Sisters, Hand in Hand", The Book of Witches (2023)

Anthology (as editor)

References

  1. ↑ Das, Indrapramit (April 2016). "Indra Das: 'The artist's job is to provide the seed for an infinite tree of branching meanings, all flowering inside the hive mind of a collective human audience.'". Mithila Review. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Indrapramit Das, About". indradas.com. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  3. ↑ "Year's Best Science Fiction - Thirtieth Annual Collection". Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Strange Horizons - Archives". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Tor.com - Asimov's Science Fiction #473". 28 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Clarkesworld - Indra Das".
  7. 1 2 3 Arley, Song. "Moving Further Out Into Space and Time: A Conversation with Indrapramit Das". Clarkesworld. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  8. ↑ "UBC - DAS, INDRAPRAMIT".
  9. ↑ "Building New Worlds". Archived from the original on 27 April 2016.
  10. ↑ Haldule, Tej (September 2017). "Brave New World | The Meteoric Rise of Indian Sc-Fi". GQ India.
  11. ↑ "29th Annual Lambda Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  12. ↑ "2017 Otherwise Award". otherwiseaward.org. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  13. ↑ "2016 Crawford Award". 2 February 2016.
  14. ↑ "2015 Locus Recommended Reading List". February 2016.
  15. ↑ "Rohini Mohan wins Shakti Bhatt prize". 24 November 2015.
  16. ↑ "FIRST BOOK AWARD – FICTION". Archived from the original on 2 August 2017.
  17. ↑ "Strange Horizons, Indrapramit Das". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  18. ↑ "Indrapramit Das". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  19. ↑ "Indrapramit Das". Vancouver Weekly. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  20. ↑ "2019 Shirley Jackson Award Winners". shirleyjacksonawards.org. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  21. ↑ "2019 Parallax and Kindred Awards". Carl Brandon Society. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  22. ↑ "The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar". Subterranean Press. 2023.
  23. ↑ Wolfe, Gary (23 June 2023). "Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das". Locus. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  24. ↑ "The British Fantasy Award Winners for 2024!". Science Fiction Awards Database. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  25. ↑ "2024 Locus Award Winners". locusmag.com. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  26. ↑ "Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art". MIT Press. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  27. ↑ "The Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024". Esquire. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  28. ↑ "2025 Ignyte Award Winners". locusmag.com. Retrieved 2026-06-17.
  29. ↑ "2025 Ignyte Award Winners". Locus. Retrieved 8 October 2026.
  30. ↑ "Weep for a Day". Clarkesworld. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  31. ↑ "MUO KA'S CHILD". Clarkesworld. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  32. ↑ "A Moon for the Unborn by Indrapramit Das". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  33. ↑ "Breaking Water". reactormag.com. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  34. ↑ "Infinity Wars". GoogleBooks. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  35. ↑ "New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color". GoogleBooks. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  36. ↑ "Note to Self (Multiple Stories)". Verve Magazine India. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  37. ↑ "You Will Survive This Night, Come Sit With Us By the Fire Volume 2". GoogleBooks. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  38. ↑ "Here Comes Your Man". Tasavvur. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  39. ↑ "Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds". reactormag.com. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  40. ↑ "The Book of Witches". HarperCollins. Retrieved 2026-05-29.