My Intro | Manoj Pandey : The writer



MANOJ PANDEY is a writer and an illustrator based in New Delhi. His creative works have appeared in Creative Review, Huffington Post, Litro, Indian Express, University of Oklahoma’s literary journal, WorldLiterature Today, Wellington City Libraries, among others and have also been exhibited at Tate, Londonand Motherland, New Delhi. In 2014, he was named as one of the ‘200 Best Illustrators in the World’ by Lurzer’s Archive. His edited book of short fiction Tales on Tweet featuring stories from Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Shashi Tharoor, among others, was published in 2016.

His recent venture, an initiative to make literature accessible to the common man, is slowly gaining acclaim far and wide. It is being termed as the ‘World’s Largest Public Library’.

His forthcoming book, an anthology of short fiction, is being published by Harper Collins India.

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