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K Satchidanandan Author
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* 28.05.1946, Thrissur, Indija
živi v: Delhi, Indija
K Satchidanandan (b.1946) is a bilingual poet, critic, playwright, editor, fiction writer and travel writer. He has thirty collections of poetry in Malayalam, ten in English and thirty-five collections in other languages including Arabic, Irish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese besides all major Indian languages.
He has won fifty-two literary awards - including the National Academy award, Dante Medal from Italy, Poet Laureate Award from Tata Literature Festival, Bombay, five awards in five genres from Kerala Sahitya Akademi besides the topmost awards for poetry and total literary contribution from Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Maharashtra.
K Satchidanandan has read his poetry and lectured at several festivals and bookfairs in over thirty countries in six continents. His latest books of poetry in English include While I Write (Harper-Collins), Misplaced Objects and Other Poems (Indian National Academy), The Missing Rib, Not Only the Oceans (Poetrywala, Bombay), The Whispering Tree, No Borders for Me (both Hawakal, Kolakata) I am a Language ( Dhauli Books, Bhubaneshwar), Questions from the Dead ( CopperCoin, Delhi) and Singing in the Dark ( ed. with Nishi Chawla, Penguin-Random House, India).
His selected essays on Indian literature, Positions was published by Niyogi Books, Delhi in 2020 and a collection of resistance writing, Words Matter edited and introduced by him came out from Penguin Random House in 2018.
Satchidanandan lives with his family in Delhi.
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živi v: Delhi, Indija
K Satchidanandan (b.1946) is a bilingual poet, critic, playwright, editor, fiction writer and travel writer. He has thirty collections of poetry in Malayalam, ten in English and thirty-five collections in other languages including Arabic, Irish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese besides all major Indian languages.
He has won fifty-two literary awards - including the National Academy award, Dante Medal from Italy, Poet Laureate Award from Tata Literature Festival, Bombay, five awards in five genres from Kerala Sahitya Akademi besides the topmost awards for poetry and total literary contribution from Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Maharashtra.
K Satchidanandan has read his poetry and lectured at several festivals and bookfairs in over thirty countries in six continents. His latest books of poetry in English include While I Write (Harper-Collins), Misplaced Objects and Other Poems (Indian National Academy), The Missing Rib, Not Only the Oceans (Poetrywala, Bombay), The Whispering Tree, No Borders for Me (both Hawakal, Kolakata) I am a Language ( Dhauli Books, Bhubaneshwar), Questions from the Dead ( CopperCoin, Delhi) and Singing in the Dark ( ed. with Nishi Chawla, Penguin-Random House, India).
His selected essays on Indian literature, Positions was published by Niyogi Books, Delhi in 2020 and a collection of resistance writing, Words Matter edited and introduced by him came out from Penguin Random House in 2018.
Satchidanandan lives with his family in Delhi.
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