[Reader-list] Almost Island Readings

[Vivek Narayanan]

Almost Island is a web journal of literature, due to appear soon. It is 
edited by Sharmistha Mohanty, with Vivek Narayanan as contributing 
editor. To celebrate its founding, Almost Island would like to invite 
you to a series of readings, Dec-15-17, at 6:30 p.m., at the India 
International Centre Annexe lawns, New Delhi.

 Dec. 15:
Allen Sealy
Mariko Nagai
K. Satchidanandan

 Dec. 16:
Sharmistha Mohanty
Vivek Narayanan
Vinod Kumar Shukla

Dec. 17:
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
George Szirtes
Followed by
A performance of Dastangoi, a lost art of storytelling, by Mahmood 
Farooqui and Danish Husain

 
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is the author of four collections of poetry, The 
Transfiguring Places, Distance in Statute Miles, Middle Earth, and Nine 
Enclosures. He has also translated poetry from the Pali, The Absent 
Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry. He has edited The Oxford India Anthology 
of Modern Indian Poets, and the Oxford History of Indian Writing in 
English.  He teaches English literature at the University of Allahabad.
 
Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of two novels, Book One, and the 
recently published New Life. Her translations of Tagore's fiction, 
Broken Nest and Other Stories are due out early next year. She has also 
worked in the serious cinema and has scripted the feature film Nazar 
directed by Mani Kaul. She lives in Bombay.

Vivek Narayanan has lived in Africa, the United States and India. His 
poems and stories have appeared in journals and anthologies in India, 
South Africa, and the United States. His book of poems, Universal Beach, 
has been recently released. He lives in New Delhi and is part of Sarai.

Mariko Nagai is a poet and a fiction writer. She lives in Tokyo, but has 
spent much of her life in Europe and the USA. She has twice won the 
Pushcart Prize, for poetry and fiction. Her book of poems Histories of 
Bodies is due out soon in the United States. She is also a translator 
from the Japanese into English. She heads the Creative Writing Program 
at the Tokyo campus of Temple University.

Allen Sealy is the author of The Trotter-Nama, Everest Hotel, The 
Brainfever Bird, and Red. He has received the Commonwealth Prize and the 
Sahitya Akademi Award. He lives in Dehra Dun.

Vinod Kumar Shukla  is a poet and fiction writer. He has over twenty 
books of poetry and prose. Shukla is the recipient of the Shikar Samman 
and the Sahitya Akademi Award. His work has been translated into several 
languages He lives in Raipur.

K. Satchidandan has nineteen collections of poetry, including Five Suns, 
When the Poet Writes, Imperfections and other New Poems. He has also 
translated the work of major Euorpean and Latin American writers into 
his native Malayalam. He has received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award 
four times. He has recently retired as head of the Sahitya Akademi. He 
lives in New Delhi.

George Szirtes was born in Hungary but has spent most of his life in 
England. He has over fifteen collections of poetry, the more recent of 
which are An English Apocapypse, and Reel, for which he was awarded the 
T.S. Eliot Prize. Szirtes is also a translator from the Hungarian into 
English, and has translated the work of such major writers as Laszlo 
Krasznahorkai, and Sandor Marai. He lives in Norwich.

 

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