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Gabriel Rosenstock
Gabriel Rosenstock Born 1949 in postcolonial Ireland, Gabriel Rosenstock is a poet, tankaist, haikuist, novelist, playwright, short story writer and essayist, author-translator of over 180 books, including works for children. Irish (Gaelic), the oldest literary language in Europe after Latin and Greek, is his language of choice. He has transcreated many writers from the Indian subcontinent in Irish including K. Satchidanandan, Dileep Jhaveri, Munir Niazi, Hemant Divate, Rati Saxene, Udayan Thakker, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Tagore, Iqbal, as well as haikuists K. Ramesh, Kala Ramesh and Janak Sapkota. A selection of his poems translated from the Irish I Open My Poem was published by Poetrywala, Mumbai. Gabriel is on the Advisory Board of PoetryIndia.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Rosenstock
Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist and curator. He is the author of 30 books, ranging across poetry, art criticism, cultural history and poetry in translation. His collections of poetry include Central Time (Penguin, 2014), Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985-2005 (Penguin, 2006) and Die Ankunft der Vögel (Carl Hanser Verlag, 2006). His translation of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded has appeared as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011). He is the editor of Dom Moraes: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics, 2012), which is the first annotated critical edition of a major Anglophone Indian poet’s work. Hoskote has been a Fellow of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa (1995) and writer-in-residence at Villa Waldberta, Munich (2003) and the Polish Institute, Berlin (2010). He has been research scholar-in-residence at BAK/ basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2010 and 2013). He has received the Sanskriti Award for Literature, the S H Raza Award for Literature, the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award for Literature, and the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award. Hoskote has curated more than 30 exhibitions of contemporary art, including the 7th Gwangju Biennale (with Okwui Enwezor and Hyunjin Kim, 2008) and the first-ever Indian national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011).
Anuradha Roy
Anuradha Roy's latest book, Sleeping on Jupiter, won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was nominated for the Man Booker prize 2015. She won the Economist Crossword Prize for her second novel, The Folded Earth. Her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, has been widely translated and was picked as one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and the Seattle Times. She works as a designer at Permanent Black, an independent press which she runs with her husband, Rukun Advani. She lives in Ranikhet, Uttarakhand.
S. V. Srinivas
S. V. Srinivas has a PhD from University of Hyderabad. He taught in Secunderabad and Itanagar before joining Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore in 1998. Over the next 16 years, while his primary affiliation was with CSCS, he held visiting appointments in National University of Singapore, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Indian Institute of Science and University of Hyderabad. His research explores the complex linkages between popular culture and mass politics. He is the author of two books on cinema and politics in India: Megastar (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Politics as Performance (Permanent Black, 2013). He currently teaches courses in Humanities and Media, Society and Development at Azim Premji University, Bangalore.
Utpal Baruah
Utpal Baruah is a popular writer in Assamese language. He began his amateur writing with short stories and subsequently diversified his interest into creative and informative literature. He earned a reputation as a writer of the popular fortnightly Assamese magazine “Prantik” on contemporary issues. His first book “Suryo Uthaa Deshor Poraa Suryo Dubaa Desholoi”, an anthology of articles and essays published in 2012 where he included eleven articles written on Goa. He translated several Konkani stories written by Mr. Damodar Mouzo into Assamese Language. His short story collection “Prabhatdar Viswaprem” is getting published in December, 2017. A comic character “Chandrapeha” he created, a village folk with a great sense of humor received wide acceptance in social media.
Sanchit Gupta
Sanchit Gupta is the author of The Tree with a Thousand Apples, a commercially and critically acclaimed work of fiction on Kashmir. He is also a screenwriter in Hindi Cinema while his screenplay based on this book has been long-listed at Sundance Screenwriters’ lab 2017, United States. Previously, he has worked in fmcg sales and marketing, theatre and television production while his short stories have been published in Indian Ruminations, Muse India, Contemporary Literary Review India and Tata Lit Live.
His works explore his fascination for global cultures, societal structures, vagaries of the world and the human mind.
Tishani Doshi
Tishani Doshi is the author of five books of fiction and poetry. At the age of twenty-six, an encounter with the choreographer Chandralekha led her to an unexpected career in dance.
In 2006, her first book of poems, Countries of the Body, won the Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection in the UK. She is also the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award for poetry and winner of the All-India Poetry Competition. Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers, was published to critical acclaim in 2010 and has been translated into several languages. Her most recent book is a collection of poems, Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods.
Mathew Staunton
Mathew Staunton is a printing historian, printmaker, teacher, and publisher. Originally from Coolock in Dublin, he divides his time between research in Irish history, teaching in a design school in Paris, printing on a small press at the bottom of his garden, and running The Onslaught Press in Oxford, UK. He has edited, designed or illustrated more than 50 books, mostly in the fields of poetry and haiku.
Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto's novel Em and the Big Hoom won the Windham-Campbell award managed by the Beinecke Library at the Yale University; the Sahitya Akademi award; the Hindu Lit for Life award and the Crossword award. His analysis of the figure of Helen in Helen: the life and times of Bollywood H-Bomb won him the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema. He is on the board of MelJol, an NGO that works in the child rights space; SPARROW, an archive for women; and The People's Free Reading Room & Library, one of his city's first public libraries.
William Wolak
William Wolak is a poet who lives in New Jersey and teaches Creative Writing at William Paterson University. He has just published his twelfth collection of poetry entitled Love Opens the Hands: New and Selected Love Poems with Nirala Publications. In 2016, he was a featured poet at The Mihai Eminescu
International Poetry Festival in Craiova, Romania; Europa in Versi, Lake Como, Italy; The Pesaro International Poetry Festival, Pesaro, Italy, The Xichang-Qionghai Silk Road International Poetry Week, Xichang, China; and Ethnofest, Pristina, Kosovo.
