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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947 [1]) is an Indian poet, anthologist, literary critic and translator.
Biography
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore in 1947. He has published six collections of poetry in English and two of translation — a volume of Prakrit love poems, The Absent Traveller, recently reissued in Penguin Classics, and Songs of Kabir ( NYRB Classics). His Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992) has been very influential. He has edited several books, including History of Indian Literature in English ( Columbia University Press, 2003) and Collected Poems in English by Arun Kolatkar ( Bloodaxe Books, 2010). His collection of essays Partial Recall: Essays on Literature and Literary History was published by Permanent Black in 2012. A second book of essays, Translating the Indian Past (Permanent Black), appeared in 2019.
Mehrotra was nominated for the post of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford in 2009. [2] He came second behind Ruth Padel, who later resigned over allegations of a smear campaign against Trinidadian poet Derek Walcott (who had himself earlier withdrawn from the election process). [3] [4]
Mehrotra has translated more than 200 literary works from ancient Prakrit language, and from Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati. [5]
Bibliography
Poetry collections
- Mehrotra, A. K. (1984). Middle earth. Three Crowns Books. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Mehrotra, A. K. (1976). Nine enclosures. Bombay: Clearing House.
- Mehrotra, A. K. (1982). Distance in statute miles. Bombay: Clearing House.
- Mehrotra, A K. (1998). The transfiguring places: poems. Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher.
- Mehrotra, A. K. (2014). Collected Poems 1969-2014. Delhi: Penguin India.
- Mehrotra, A. K. (2016). Collected Poems. Artarmon NSW: Giramondo.
- Mehrotra, A.K. (2020) Selected Poems and Translations/NYRB Poets. New York: New York Review Books.
Edited books
- Mehrotra, A. K. (2003). History of Indian literature in English. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Mehrotra, A. K. (1992). The Oxford India anthology of twelve modern Indian poets. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
excerpts
- Translated into German as Mehrotra, A. K. (2006). Indische Dichter der Gegenwart eine Anthologie englischsprachiger Lyrik Indiens. Heidelberg: Verl. Das Wunderhorn.
- Weissbort, D., & Mehrotra, A. K. (1993). Periplus: poetry in translation. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Mehrotra, A. K. (2007). The last bungalow: writings on Allahabad. New Delhi: Penguin Books.
Translation
- Mehrotra, A. K. (1991). The Absent Traveller: Prākrit love poetry from the Gāthāsaptaśatī of Sātavāhana Hāla. Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher.
- Mehrotra, A. K. (2011). Songs of Kabir. New York: NYRB Classics.
- Mehrotra, A.K. with Sara Rai (2019). Blue Is Like Blue: Stories by Vinod Kumar Shukla. Delhi: HarperCollins.
Editor of literary magazines
- damn you/a magazine of the arts. Allahabad, India: 1964-1968.
- Ezra. Bombay, India: Ezra-Fakir Press, 1966-1969.
- Fakir. Bombay, India: Ezra-Fakir Press, 1966.
See also
- Indian English Poetry
- Indian poetry in English
- Indian English Literature
- Indian literature
- List of Indian poets
References
- ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
- ^ Biography at Poetry International Web Archived 28 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Arvind Mehrotra loses Oxford's Professor of Poetry election - The Times of India". The Times Of India.
- ^ Soofi, Mayank Austen (29 November 2014). "Arvind Krishna Mehrotra: Allahabad's prodigal poet". Livemint. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ Marvel, Ishan (13 January 2016). ""Academia In India Is Not Something About Which You Can Have Any Illusions": An Interview With Arvind Krishna Mehrotra". The Caravan.
External links
- Poetry Centre, Smith College [1]
- Poems and Bio at Poetry International Web
- Interview with Bharat Iyer An Interview with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra—by Bharat Iyer—Eclectica Magazine v16n2
- Poetry Archive Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
- Interview with Laetitia Zecchini, ' We were like Cartographers, Mapping the City', Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2017
- Guide to the Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Papers 1960-2014 Guide to the Arvind Krishna Mehrotra papers, 1960-2014.
Further reading
Among the published works giving an analysis of his poetry are:
- Lakshmi Raghunandan. (1990). Contemporary Indian poetry in English: with special emphasis on Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, R. Parthasarathy, and A.K. Ramanujan : other poets assessed are Arun Kolatkar, Shiv K. Kumar, Keki N. Daruwalla, Jayanta Mahapatra, and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. New Delhi: Reliance Pub. House.
Bruce King, (1987, revised edition 2001) Modern Indian Poetry in English. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
He is interviewed in the following works:
- De Souza, E. (1999). Talking poems: conversations with poets. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Reviews
- August Kleinzahler (27 May 2011). "Rebirth of a Poet". The New York Times.
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