Sunil Sharma, PhD (English), is an academic, critic, literary editor and author with 29 published books: eight collections of poetry; five of short fiction; two novels; a critical study of the novel, and, 10 joint anthologies on prose, poetry and criticism, and, two joint poetry collections and one joint fiction collection. A recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ Inaugural Poet of the Year award---2012. Winner, among others, of the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and, Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the political novel Minotaur. His poems were published in the prestigious UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, in the year 2015.