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Anamika
Anamika at SAARC Festival of Literature 2017 in New Delhi
Anamika at SAARC Festival of Literature 2017 in New Delhi
Born (1961-08-17) 17 August 1961 (age 63)
Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India
OccupationPoet, Writer
NationalityIndian
EducationMA in English literature, PhD, DLit
Notable worksGalat Pate Ki Chitthi, Bijakshar
Notable awardsBharat Bhushan Award for Poetry

Anamika (born 17 August 1961) is a prominent contemporary Indian poet, social worker and novelist[1] writing in Hindi, and a critic writing in English.

She has eight collections of poetry, five novels and four works of criticism in her credit. Currently, she is Reader at the Department of English, Satyawati College, University of Delhi.

Early life and education

Anamika was born on 17 August 1961 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Her father Shyamnandan Kishore was a Hindi poet and her "first teacher in poetry". Anamika describes herself as a very lonely child who led a very isolated life in a huge household. Her only companions were the books from her father's library. She says reading these books, living a life of imagination and listening to her "aunts, classmates, other women, women in distress," their stories and their pain shaped her understanding of women, whose socially-constructed femininity she learnt to deconstruct and question after studying the work of poets like Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Marge Piercy, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.

Anamika studied at the Universities of Bihar, Muzaffarpur, Lucknow and Delhi. Her PhD thesis was on "Donne Criticism through the Ages" and her post-doctoral research on "The Treatment of Love and Death in Post-war American Women Poets". Her current topic of research as a fellow at Teen Murti Bhawan, Delhi is "A Comparative Study of Women in Contemporary British and Hindi poetry".[2]

Selected works

Poetry

  1. Galat Pate ki Chithi
  2. Beejakshar
  3. Anushtup
  4. Doob-Dhaan
  5. Khurduri Hatheliyan
  6. Tokari Me Digant

Novels

  1. Das dvaare ka Peenjara
  2. Tinka Tinke Paas
  3. Billu Shakespeare - Post Bastar
  4. Ainasaaz
  5. Awantar Katha
  6. Lalten Bazar
  7. Mann Krishna: Mann Arjun

Criticism

  1. Post-Eliot Poetry
  2. Streetva ka Manchitra

Translations

  1. Nagamandal
  2. Afro-English Poems
  3. Kahti hai Auratein

References

  1. ^ Sen, Sudeep (November 2010). "Salt". World Literature Today. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014.
  2. ^ Subramaniam, Arundhati (1 June 2006). "Poetry and the 'Good Girl Syndrome'". Poetry International Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
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