Avtar Singh

Avtar Singh is a writer, editor, and storyteller. His last novel, Into the Forest was published by Context/Westland in 2024. Set in a German forest during Covid, it is about a group of women from very different backgrounds, three disappearances, and at least one murder.

Necropolis is set in Delhi, and is about crime, poetry, and a woman who may be hundreds of years old. It is available from HarperCollins/Akashic Books. It is translated in German as Nekropolis, by Unionsverlag.

His short fiction has been anthologised in The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction, Mumbai Noir, and Civil Lines, and has been published in Prairie Schooner, Subnivean, Tehelka, and other places.

Singh was founding editor of Time Out Delhi and managing editor of The Indian Quarterly. His reporting and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Nikkei AsianReview, The Hindu, Seminar, and Biblio, among others.

He lives and works in Germany.