Poetry reading and discussion with Dr Anamika

Join us for a poetry reading and discussion with Dr Anamika. She will read from “Tokri Mein Digant” a volume that won her the Sahitya Akademi Prize.

The session will be introduced by Parvathy Salil and chaired by Dr Anandi Rao. 

About the speaker

Professor Anamika teaches literatures in English at the University of Delhi. Her doctoral thesis is on the reception of John Donne across the ages. She has published extensively also in the areas of Translating Studies and Gender Justice . Besides 8 volumes of criticism, she has published 7 well received novels in Hindi. Three of her novels, Dus Dware ka Peenjara, Aienasaz and Trin Dhari Oat have won national awards and have been staged as major stage productions

In 2020 she received the Sahitya Akademi Award for her poetry collection” Tokri Mein Digant” Poems from her other poetry collections “Anushtup”, “Khurduri Hatheliyan”, ”Doob - Dhan”, “ Pani Ko  Sab Yaad Tha”, “ Band Raston Ka Safar” etc  are prescribed at different Universities and have been rendered into languages such as Malayalam, Marathi, Bangla, Punjabi, Oriya, Kannad, Korean, Russian and English . She herself is an avid translator and  also the founder editor of a bilingual journal called Pashyantee.

Her essays on womanist discourse in Hindi too have been translated into many languages and she herself has translated the works of Rilke, Neruda, Doris Lessing, Octavio Paz, and fellow women poets extensively. Her major English publications include Transplanting British Poetry in Indian Classrooms, Donne Criticism Down the Ages, Post-War Women Poets: Treatment of Love and Death, Feminist Poetics: Where Kingfishers Catch Fire, Translating Racial Memory, Weaving a Nation: Proto-Feminist Writing in Hindi and Urdu.

Parvathy Salil is a PhD scholarship holder at Teesside University, UK. She has authored two anthologies: “Rhapsody” (2016) & “The One I Never Knew” (Authorspress, 2018). A winner of the Network Capital Anamika Scholarship introduced to honour Dr Anamika — the first female poet to win the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry, 2020— she has recited poems for the All-India Radio’s Yuvavani and has been hosting/moderating/co- ordinating literary and cultural events in India for over a decade.