H. S. Shivaprakash is Professor (retd), Theatre and Performance Studies, JNU, New Delhi. Author of 9 books of poems, 15 plays and 3 critical works in Kannada, which are widely discussed, performed and translated into several Indian languages and into English, Spanish, French, Italian German, Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Turkish and Arabic.He is the winner of the prestigious Rajyotsava Award from Karnataka State(2006) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award from National Theatre Akademi (1997), Sahitya Akademi (2012), Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award (2016), Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati Tanslation Award (2016) and Kusumagraj Kavya Puraskar (2017). He has participated in International Writing Program in School of Letters, University of Iowa, USA (2000). He is also the former Editor of Indian Literature.