Career
He writes in English, and is the author of the following books to date:
how i invented myself as "prakash kona"
Nunc Stans
Words on Lips of a Stranger
Pearls of an Unstrung Necklace
Streets that Smell of Dying Roses
Poems for Her (as Kona Prakash Reddy)*
You and Other Poems (as Kona Prakash Reddy)*
Other works, including essays and fictional vignettes, are published widely on the Internet. In August 2010 Kona contributed to an eBook collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State edited by Alan Morrison
His fiction is highly unusual, an experimental combination of free-floating emotion and political theory that can depict, for example, a city or a love relationship in an ambiguous, flowing, non-concrete and yet highly personal and heartfelt manner. He is currently Professor at the Department of English Literature, School of English Literary Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad.
