Mustansir Dalvi is a poet, translator and editor. He has three books of poems — Brouhahas of Cocks (Poetrywala, 2013), Cosmopolitician (Poetrywala, 2018) and WALK (Poetrywala, 2019/Yavanika Press, 2020). His poems are included, amongst several others, in the anthologies: Converse: Contemporary Indian poetry in English – (Sudeep Sen, editor, Pippa Rann Books, 2022) and Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing (Anjum Hasan and Sampurna Chattarji, editors, Red Hen Press, 2022). His poems have been translated into French, Croatian, Gujarati, Hindi and Marathi. Mustansir Dalvi’s 2012 English translation of Muhammad Iqbal’s influential Shikwa and Jawaab-e-Shikwa from the Urdu as Taking Issue and Allah’s Answer (India Penguin Modern Classics) has been described as ‘insolent and heretical’ and makes Iqbal’s verse accessible to the modern reader. 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 forthcoming publication (2023) is a translation of Hemant Divate’s Maharashtra State Kavi Keshavsut Award winning book Paranoia. Mustansir Dalvi was born in Bombay. He teaches architecture in Mumbai.
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