6 - 8 December 2018 , Thu - Sat.
GALF 2018 : Speakers
Rana Safvi
Rana Safvi is a renowned author and translator. She is the author of Tales from the Quran and Hadith and Where Stones Speak: Historical Trails in Mehrauli, The First City of Delhi and The Forgotten Cities of Delhi. She has also translated both the editions of Asar us Sanadeed, the seminal work on Delhi’s monuments, written by Sir Syed Ahmad. Rana also runs the popular blog ‘Hazrat-e-Dilli’ on her site ranasafvi.com, and is passionate about documenting India’s syncretic culture through her writings. Rana is a postgraduate in History from Aligarh Muslim University and lives in Delhi with her family.
Shanta Gokhale
Shanta Gokhale is a bilingual columnist, novelist, playwright, film script-writer and translator. She has translated Uddhav Shelke's novel Dhag; her own novels Rita Welinkar(1995) and Tya Varshi (2010) - as Crowfall (2013) - both of which received Maharashtra State awards for best fiction; Durga Khote's autobiography I, Durga Khote (2007) and over a dozen plays from Marathi into English, including her own, Avinash (1994). Her translation of Gieve Patel's English play Mister Behram into Marathi was staged in Pune and Mumbai. Her other translations include Prabhakar Barve's Kora Canvas and Makarand Sathe's novel Achyut Athavale ani Athavan into English and Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom into Marathi for which she received the Balshastri Jambhekar award in 2016. Shanta has written numerous film-scripts for documentary and feature films. She has been a culture columnist for The Times of India, Mid-Day and Mumbai Mirror. She is the author of Playwright at the Centre: Marathi Drama from 1843 to the Present (2000) and has edited Satyadev Dubey: A Fifty-year Journey Through Theatre (2011), The Theatre of Veenapani Chawla: Theory, Practice, Performance and The Scenes We Made: Experimental Theatre in Mumbai (2015). Shanta received the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for overall contribution to the Performing Arts in 2016.
Perumal Murugan
Perumal Murugan is an Indian author, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. He has six novels, four collections of short stories and four anthologies of poetry to his credit many of which are translated into English. The translated novels include Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat (2018); Current Show (2017); Pyre (2016); One Part Woman (2015); and Seasons of the Palm (2017) which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize in 2005. One Part Woman, his best-known work, was shortlisted for the Crossword Award and won the prestigious ILF Samanvay Bhasha Samman in 2015. Perumal has also received awards from the Tamil Nadu government as well as from Katha Books. He was earlier a professor of Tamil at the Government Arts College in Namakkal.
Mustansir Dalvi
Mustansir Dalvi is an Anglophone poet, translator and editor. Brouhahas of Cocks is his first book of poems in English published by Poetrywala in 2013. His poems are included in several anthologies, including These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry and the Sahitya Akademi’s To Catch a Poem: An Anthology of Poetry for Young People. His poems have been translated into French, Croatian and Marathi. Mustansir’s 2012 English translation of Muhammad Iqbal’s influential Shikwaand Jawaab-e-Shikwa from the Urdu as Taking Issue and Allah’s Answer (Penguin Classics) has been described as ‘insolent and heretical’. This book was awarded Runner-Up for Best Translation at the Muse India National Literary Award in 2012. His translations of the Sufi mystic Rahim are published in the anthology Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry (2014, Penguin Ananda). He has translated the poems of Hemant Divate from the Marathi in Struggles with Imagined Gods (2014, Poetrywala). He is the editor of Man without a Navel, a collection of new and selected translations of Hemant Divate’s poems from the Marathi (2018, Poetrywala). His new book of poems Cosmopolitician is to be published by Poetrywala in 2018.
Urvashi Bahuguna
Urvashi Bahuguna’s debut poetry collection was selected for the 2017 Emerging Poet’s Prize by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and will be published in late 2018 by The Great Indian Poetry Collective. Her book of essays on mental health is forthcoming in 2019 from Penguin India. Her work has been recognized by a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship, a Sangam House fellowship, an Eclectica Spotlight Author Prize, and a TOTO Award for Creative Writing.
Asiya Zahoor
Asiya Zahoor teachers at a college in Kashmir. Asiya has studied Psycholinguistics and Literature at Oxford University and the University of Kashmir. Her area of interest and scholarship is the Diaspora, South-Asian mainly Kashmiri Literature, Psycholinguistics, and film. Asiya writes poetry and has curated a website Bol Bosh (www.bolbosh.net)
Prabda Yoon
Prabda Yoon was born in Bangkok and studied in the United States from the age of 15. In 1997, he graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts from the Cooper Union in New York City. Prabda returned to Thailand for a six-month military service in 1998, and started to write short stories immediately after his discharge. His first published book, in 2000, was the story collection Muang Moom Chak (City of Right Angles), which was quickly followed by another story collection, Kwam Na Ja Pen (Probability), in the same year. The latter went on to win the prestigious S. E. A Write Award. He has been widely credited as the popularizer of “postmodern” writing in Thailand. Kwam Na Ja Pen has been reprinted continuously and is regarded as a landmark book in contemporary Thai literature. Since his debut collection, Prabda has written and published numerous story collections, novels, essays, song lyrics, and screenplays. His writings have been translated to Japanese, English, Spanish, Italian, and Chinese. He is also the Thai translator of western modern classics such as Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, and all of J. D. Salinger’s books. In early 2017, the UK independent publishing house Tilted Axis Press released Yoon’s first book in English: The Sad Part Was. It is the first translation of Thai fiction to be published in the UK. His second English book, Moving Parts, was published in 2018, also by Tilted Axis Press. Apart from writing, Prabda is also an acclaimed designer of book covers and film director.
Harish Trivedi
Harish Trivedi was formerly Professor of English at the University of Delhi and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Chicago and London. His research interests include Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Translation Studies, Comparative Literature and World Literature, and he is currently the contributing editor for South and Southeast Asia of an international project based in Stockholm for writing a history of World Literature. His publications include Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India (1995), Post-colonial Translation: Theory and Practice (1999), and an edition of Kim (2011) by Rudyard Kipling. He has written on and translated various Hindi, Urdu and Sanskrit writers, including Ashvaghosha, Premchand, Manto, and Ajneya. He has edited and contributed two chapters to a book in Hindi on the poet Rahim, a Muslim bhakti poet more formally known as Abdur-Rahim Khan-e khana (1556-1627), who was also a prominent courtier of the Emperor Akbar and the commander of his army.
Avishek Sen
Avishek Sen is a contemporary artist working primarily with watercolour as a medium. Juxtaposing intricate and large forms, conflating fruits, animals, humans and inanimate objects, often in a metaphorical construct, Avishek explores questions about contemporary socio-political issues in India. He received his Master’s degree in Fine Art (Painting) from Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University. He has held solo exhibitions in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, London, Paris and Rome. Avishek’s work has been displayed at Gallery Espace, New Delhi; Aicon Gallery, New York; Albion Gallery, London; Apparao Galleries, Chennai; and CIMA Gallery, Kolkata to name a few. His work has also been displayed at numerous Art Fairs including FIAC Paris, Art Dubai, India Art Fair, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Scope New York, Johannesburg Art Fair and Art Singapore. Apart from these, Avishek has participated in the International Festival of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Algiers, Algeria (2009) and the Arts Actuels Biennale, La Reunion (2011). He lives and works in New Delhi.
Chinmay Tumbe
Chinmay Tumbe is faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and the 2018 Alfred D. Chandler Jr International Visiting Scholar in Business History at Harvard Business School. He works on migration, cities, firms and history. An alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, he has been a faculty member at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad and was the 2013 Jean Monnet Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He has published widely on migration for a decade and has served on policymaking groups. India Moving is his first book.
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