Aruni Kashyap's next novel to be published by HarperVia in 2026!

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Publishers Marketplace has reported that Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing Program Aruni Kashyap's How to Date a Fanatic will be published by HarperVia in 2026! This will be Kashyap's debut in the American market. 

How to Date a Fanatic follows a young professor and his group of queer friends in Delhi as they navigate sex, love, and politics against the backdrop of intensifying polarization, unaware that the tensions in the city—and among them—will soon violently erupt.

HarperVia is an imprint dedicated to publishing extraordinary international voices, offering readers the chance to encounter other lives and other points of view via the language of the imagination.

Publishers Marketplace

I am thrilled to share the news that my next novel, HOW TO DATE A FANATIC will be published by @HarperViaBooks in 2026!! Big thanks to my amazing and relentless literary agent @VonCleland who believed in this book long before I wrote the last chapter and excited to work with my… pic.twitter.com/Oc4WIMu9jV

— Aruni Kashyap (@arunikashyap) October 2, 2024

Aruni Kashyap is the author of His Father’s Disease: Stories (updated with new stories and published as The Way You Want To Be Loved in the US), the novel The House With a Thousand Stories. Along with editing a collection of stories called How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency, he has also translated two novels from Assamese to English, published by Zubaan Books and Penguin Random House; two more forthcoming from Penguin Random House & Westland Books in 2025 and 2026. 
 
Recipient of a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities and Arts Program, Arts Lab Faculty Fellowship, a Willson Centre Fellowship, and the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh, his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News was nominated for the 58th Georgia Author of the Year Awards 2022, a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Catapult, Bitch Media, The Boston Review, Electric Literature, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from Northeast, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The Guardian UK, and others. 
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