Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2016: Contemporary Indian Poetry in English
5:15pm - 7:30pm /
Monday 29th February 2016
/ Venue: First floor Library, 19-23 Abercromby Square Abercromby SQ (West)
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- Filomena Saltao
- Suitable for: All staff and students
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EventBrite RegistrationThe School of the Arts is delighted to present:
Contemporary Indian Poetry in English
The second installment of the Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2016
With guest speakers Sudeep Sen and Karthika Naïr
Refreshments will be provided
Places are limited, so please register early to avoid disappointment
Karthika Naïr is the author of Bearings (HarperCollins) and Until the Lions (HarperCollins), which is a reworking of the Mahabharata in multiple voices. She is also the author of a children's book, The Honey Hunter, and has worked as a dance producer in Paris.
Sudeep Sen's prize-winning collections include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies, Rain, Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award), Ladakh, The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor), and Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1980-2015. Two new books, Blue Nude: New Selected Poems (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Prize), and EroText (Penguin Random House) are forthcoming. His poetry and prose, translated into 25 languages, have featured in major international anthologies; and his words have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Telegraph, Herald, Harvard Review, Hindu, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Outlook, India Today, and broadcast on BBC, PBS, CNN IBN, NDTV, air & Doordarshan. Sen’s newer work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta), Language for a New Century (Norton), Leela (Collins), Indian Love Poems (Knopf/Random House/Everyman), Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe), and Initiate: Oxford New Writing (Blackwell). He is the editorial director of aark arts and the editor of Atlas.
Contemporary Indian Poetry in English
The second installment of the Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2016
With guest speakers Sudeep Sen and Karthika Naïr
Refreshments will be provided
Places are limited, so please register early to avoid disappointment
Karthika Naïr is the author of Bearings (HarperCollins) and Until the Lions (HarperCollins), which is a reworking of the Mahabharata in multiple voices. She is also the author of a children's book, The Honey Hunter, and has worked as a dance producer in Paris.
Sudeep Sen's prize-winning collections include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies, Rain, Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award), Ladakh, The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor), and Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1980-2015. Two new books, Blue Nude: New Selected Poems (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Prize), and EroText (Penguin Random House) are forthcoming. His poetry and prose, translated into 25 languages, have featured in major international anthologies; and his words have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Telegraph, Herald, Harvard Review, Hindu, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Outlook, India Today, and broadcast on BBC, PBS, CNN IBN, NDTV, air & Doordarshan. Sen’s newer work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta), Language for a New Century (Norton), Leela (Collins), Indian Love Poems (Knopf/Random House/Everyman), Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe), and Initiate: Oxford New Writing (Blackwell). He is the editorial director of aark arts and the editor of Atlas.