Sukrita Paul Kumar 
Author

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Resurrection الانجليزية

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Voyaging at Ten الانجليزية

Ageing In America الانجليزية

Insight الانجليزية

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Sukrita Paul Kumar 
Author

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* 10.11.1949, كينيا
يعيش في: New Delhi, الهند

Sukrita Paul Kumar, was born and brought up in Kenya and is at present living in Delhi. She held the Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at the University of Delhi, till recently. An Honorary Fellow of International Writing Programme, University of Iowa (USA) and a former Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, she was also an invited poet in residence at Hong Kong Baptist University. She has published several collections of poems in English including, Folds of SilenceWithout Margins, Rowing Together and Apurna. Her poems selected and translated by the eminent lyricist Gulzar has been published by HarperCollins as a bilingual book, Poems Come Home.  Sukrita’s major critical works include Narrating PartitionConversations on ModernismThe New Story and Man, Woman and Androgyny. Some of her co-edited books are Speaking for Herself: An Anthology of Asian Women’s WritingsIsmat, Her Life, Her Times,Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literatureand Women’s Studies in India: Contours of Change. As Director of a UNESCO project on “The Culture of Peace”, she edited Mapping Memories, a volume of Urdu short stories from India and Pakistan. She has two books of translations, Stories of Joginder Paul and the novel Sleepwalkers. She is the chief editor of the book on Cultural Diversity in India published by Macmillan India and prescribed by the University of Delhi. A recipient of many prestigious fellowships and residencies, Sukrita has lectured at many universities in India and abroad. A solo exhibition of her paintings was held at AIFACS, Delhi. A number of Sukrita’s poems have emerged from her experience of working with homeless people.

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المنشورات
  • Oscillations

    [poetry]

    New Delhi: Ashajanak Publishers, 1974

  • Apurna

    [poetry]

    Calcutta: Writer's Workshop, 1988

  • The New Story

    A study of Literary Modernism in Urdu and Hindi Short Fiction

    New Delhi: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 1990

  • Conversations on Modernism

    Dialogues with Writers, Critics and Philosophers

    New Delhi: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 1990

  • Folds of Silence

    [poetry]

    New Delhi: Kokil, 1996

  • Without Margins

    [poetry]

    New Delhi: Bibliophile South Asia, 2005

  • Rowing Together

    [poetry]

    New Delhi: Rajkamal Publications, 2008

  • Poems Come Home

    Bilingual, Translated by Gulzar

    New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2011

  • Seven Leaves

    [poetry]

    New Delhi: One Autumn Rajkamal Publications, 2011

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