Sudeep Sen
Sudeep Sen | |
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![]() Sudeep Sen (centre) at the Odisha Literacy Festival, 2012. | |
Born | 1964 (age 59–60) |
Occupation | Poet |
Alma mater | Hindu College, Delhi |
Genre | modernism |
Notable works | New York Times; Monsoon |
Notable awards | Kathak Literary Award; Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize |
Sudeep Sen (born 1964) is an Indian English poet and editor.[1]
Early life
He was educated at St Columba's School in Delhi and received a degree in English literature from Hindu College, University of Delhi. He received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Sen also received a master's degree in English and creative writing from Hollins University, and was an international scholar at Davidson College. From 1992 to 1993 he was international poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, and in 1995 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University.[2][1] In 1995 he set up a poetry publishing company, Aark Arts. He has a son named Aria.[2]
Works
Sen's books include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems, Rain, Aria, Postcards from Bangladesh, Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 and EroText. [3][self-published source]
Poetry
- Leaning Against the Lamp-Post (1983)
- The Man in the Hut (1986)
- The Lunar Visitations (1990)
- Kali in Ottava Rima (1992)
- Parallel (1993)
- New York Times (1993)
- South African Woodcut (1994)
- Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames (1994)
- Dali's Twisted Hands (1995)
- Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (1997)
- Retracing American Contours (1999)
- A Blank Letter (2000)
- Lines of Desire (2000)
- Almanac (2000)
- Perpetual Diary (2001)
- Monsoon (2002)
- Distracted Geography: An Archipelago of Intent (2003)
- Prayer Flag (2003)
- Rain (2005)
- Heat (2009)
- Winter Frances (2010)
- Mediterraneo (2012)
- Ladakh (2012)
- Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1978-2013 (2013)
- Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 (2015)
- Incarnat | Incarnadine (2017)
- Path to Inspiration (2017) (with Setsuko Klossowska de Rola & Homa Arzhangi)
Prose
- Postcards from Bangladesh (2002) (with Tanvir Fattah & Kelley Lynch)
- BodyText: Dramatic Monologues in Motion (2009)
- EroText (2016)
Translations
- In Another Tongue (2000)
- Love & Other Poems (2001)
- Spellbound & Other Poems (2003)
- Love Poems (2005)
- Aria (2009)
Editor, co-editor
- 1995 Wasafiri: Contemporary Writing from India, South Asia and the Diaspora. University of London.
- 1996 Lines Review Twelve Modern Young Indian Poets. Edinburgh: Lines Review.
- 1998 Index for Censorship (poems); Songs of Partition (portfolio). London: Index for Censorship
- 2001-18: Six Seasons Review. Dhaka: University Press Limited & London: Aark Arts.
- 2001 Hayat Saif: Selected Poems. Dhaka: Pathak Samabesh.
- 2001 The British Council Book of Emerging English Poets from Bangladesh. Dhaka: The British Council.
- 2002 Dash: Four New German Writers. Berlin: Humboldt University & London: Aark Arts.
- 2002 Shawkat Haider: A Day with Destiny. Dhaka: Azeez.
- 2004 Midnight's Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India. Macedonia: Struga Poetry Evenings (in Macedonian).
- 2005 Sestet: Six New Writers. Berlin: Free University & London: Aark Arts.
- 2006 Biblio South Asian English Poetry (portfolio). New Delhi: Biblio.
- 2006–present Atlas: New Writing, Art & Image. London, New York, New Delhi: Aark Arts.
- 2009 The Literary Review. Indian Poetry. Fairleigh Dickinson University.
- 2010 World Literature Today: Writing from Modern India. University of Oklahoma.
- 2011 Poetry Review Centrefold Portfolio of Indian Poetry. UK: Poetry Review.
- 2012 The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. HarperCollins.
- 2012 The Yellow Nib: Modern English Poetry by Indians. Belfast: Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queens University.
- 2013: The Prairie Schooner Feast Anthology of Poetry by Indian Women. University of Nebraska.
- 2015: World English Poetry. Dhaka: Bengal Foundation.
Awards
Year | Works | Awards |
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2022 | Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation | joint-winner of the US$10,000 Rabindranath Tagore Literature Prize for 20221-22[4] |
2018 | Postcards from Bangladesh | UPL Excellence Award[5] |
2017 | EroText | Global Literary Festival Award for Literary Excellence[6] |
2017 | EroText | Best Book of the Year[7] |
2009 | Aria | AK Ramanujan Translation Award[8] |
2009 | Blue Nude | Jorge Zalamea Poetry Award[9] |
2007 | Kathak Literary Award[10] | |
2004 | Pleiades Honour[citation needed] </ref> |
References
- ^ a b ""An Interview with Sudeep Sen," Ziaul Karim". World Literature Today. 13 February 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
- ^ a b Kadija Sesay (2002). "Sen, Sudeep". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 275. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
- ^ home page Archived 2007-02-21 at the Wayback Machine of Sudeep Sen's website, SudeepSen.com, retrieved December 15, 2008
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ UPL recognises 19 books, 16 individuals, six institutions
- ^ ""EroText is an avant-garde experimental book" – Sudeep Sen – The India Observer". theindiaobserver.com. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- ^ "Bibliomania, Biblioboom: Best Books of 2017". The Asian Age. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- ^ In Verse Proportion
- ^ "Sudeep Sen". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 8 September 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Sudeep Sen's powerful poetry wins accolades". The Daily Star. 12 November 2007. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
Further reading
- Dawes, K., ed. (1996). Sudeep Sen: a Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. South Carolina: University of South Carolina.
- Panja, Shormishtha (2005). "Sen, Sudeep (1964-)". In Benson, Eugene; Conolly, L. W. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English. London: Routledge – via Credo Reference.
External links
- Personal website
- British Council profile
- Listen to Sudeep Sen reading his poetry - a British Library recording, 1 November 2010.