H.S. Komalesha is the author of Issues of Identity in Indian English Fiction, published by Peter Lang, Oxford. Sahitya Akademi, the Academy of Letters in India, has published two of his English translations: Anupama Niranjana (2008) and Rashtrakavi Kuvempu (2014). He teaches poetry and poetics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, India.