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Sudeep Sen
Born1964 (age 59–60)
OccupationPoet
Alma materHindu College, Delhi
Genremodernism
Notable worksNew York Times; Monsoon
Notable awardsKathak Literary Award

Sudeep Sen (born 1964) is an Indian English poet and editor living in London and New Delhi.[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. An Inlaks Scholar, 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 also edited an issue of Wasafari on Asian writing, and set up a poetry publishing company, Aark Arts.[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. His works have been translated into Arabic, Bengali, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Malayalam, Persian, Punjabi, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.[3][self-published source]

He has edited several anthologies, including The Harper Collins Book of English Poetry, World Literature Today Writing from Modern India,The Literary Review Indian Poetry and Midnight's Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India. Sen's writings have appeared in newspapers, magazines and journals and been broadcast on radio and television, such as the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Telegraph, Financial Times, Herald, Poetry Review, Literary Review, Harvard Review, Hindu, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Indian Express, Outlook and India Today.

Sen has written poetry for the film, Flying Home, directed by Michael Walling and produced by Border Crossing and Arts Council. His poetic contributions to stage plays include Vesuvius and BodyText. Both were directed by Michael Walling and produced by Border Crossing. Among his poetic contribution are the stage shows Texture Tone Topography: Poetry & Jazz, T3 & Woman, J3: Jibanananda Jazz Jugalbandi, [Wo]man, and Rain.[1] Sen has directed a staged reading, Midnight's Grandchildren: Contemporary Indian Poetry in English.

Awards

Year Works Awards
2018 Postcards from Bangladesh UPL Excellence Award[4]
2017 EroText Global Literary Festival Award for Literary Excellence[5]
2017 EroText Best Book of the Year[6]
2009 Aria AK Ramanujan Translation Award[7]
2009 Blue Nude Jorge Zalamea Poetry Award[8]
2007 Kathak Literary Award[9]
2004 Pleiades Honour[10]

Bibliography

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.

References

  1. ^ a b c ""An Interview with Sudeep Sen," Ziaul Karim". World Literature Today. 13 February 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ home page Archived 2007-02-21 at the Wayback Machine of Sudeep Sen's website, SudeepSen.com, retrieved December 15, 2008
  4. ^ UPL recognises 19 books, 16 individuals, six institutions
  5. ^ ""EroText is an avant-garde experimental book" – Sudeep Sen – The India Observer". theindiaobserver.com. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Bibliomania, Biblioboom: Best Books of 2017". The Asian Age. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  7. ^ In Verse Proportion
  8. ^ "Sudeep Sen". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 8 September 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ "Sudeep Sen's powerful poetry wins accolades". The Daily Star. 12 November 2007. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  10. ^ Tiwari, Sandhya (9 September 2018). "The Poetic Genius of Sudeep Sen: A Critical Perspective" (PDF). The Criterion: An International Journal in English.

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.
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