Infatuation: The Cresent and the Vermilion

Novelist short-story writer, poet, playwright, translator and critic, Shiv K Kumar was born in Lahore. He received his doctorate in English literature from Cambridge University. In 1978, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (London) and, in 1988, he received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for his collection of poems Trapfalls in the sky.

Kumar has published three novels, six collections of poems, a collection of short stories, a play, a translation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and severaaal scholary works.