Sudeep Sen
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Sudeep Sen is widely known as India's leading poet of the younger generation. His writing is praised for its intelligence, lyricism, formalism and passion.
Email Contact: sudeepsen.net@gmail.com Website: www.sudeepsen.net
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Short Biography
SUDEEP SEN is the 2004 recipient of the prestigious ‘Pleiades’ honour at the world’s oldest poetry festival — the Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia — for having made “significant contribution to modern world poetry”. Sen studied at St Columba’s School and read literature at Delhi University and in the USA. As an Inlaks Scholar, he completed an MS from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York. Winner of many international and national prizes, he was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship (UK) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize (USA) for poems included in Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins). More recently, he has published Postcards from Bangladesh, Prayer Flag, Distracted Geographies, and Rain. As an invited author representing his country, he has read his work worldwide, and has been translated into several languages including Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Malayalam, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. His poetry appears in important international anthologies published by Penguin, HarperCollins, Bloomsbury, Routledge, Norton, Knopf, Everyman, Macmillan, and Granta; and his other writings have appeared in the TLS, Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard, Financial Times, Scotsman, Herald, London Magazine, Literary Review, among others. Sen was an international poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He is the editor of Atlas, editorial director of AARK ARTS, and lives in New Delhi and London. [www.sudeepsen.net]
SOME REVIEWS OF SUDEEP SEN’S WORK
‘I read Rain with considerable admiration and pleasure. It is a word-perfect collection and its subject matter is both the measure of the rain and the spoken line’. —AMIT CHAUDHURI in The Statesman ‘Best Book of the Year’
‘Sudeep Sen’s poems are a present which bring — like all true poetry — so much companionship’. —JOHN BERGER, Booker Prize Winner and author of The Ways of Seeing (Penguin/BBC)
‘A highly sophisticated poet’. — KAIFI AZMI, author of Selected Poems (Viking Penguin)
‘A gifted poet’. — DOM MORAES in Sunday Midday
Prayer Flag is an unique object of art that reveals two intrinsically linked artistic sides of Sen’s work and talent: words and images. Perfection of musicality, tone and cadence is tuned to produce the finest resonance… a gift to treasure from a master artist. — TOM ALTER in Biblio
‘A rich, fluent, cosmopolitan voice’. — PETER BRADSHAW in London Evening Standard
‘Sen has emerged as a leading poet of the English language — has a painter’s eye when depicting a scene — [commands] superb skill’. — KHUSHWANT SINGH in Sunday Observer
‘Sen [has] extended the range of Indian verse in English to encompass a variety of alternative views of language, history and culture’. — Pears Cyclopaedia 2003/4/5 (Penguin)
‘Sen is an eclectic poet whose understated work eschews fashionable trends, while exhibiting considerable technical virtuosity and versatility’. —JOHN THIEME in Cambridge Guide to Literature in English [Cambridge University Press]
‘Sen is amongst the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene. A distinct voice: carefully modulated and skilled, well measured and crafted’. — GREGOR ROBERTSON on BBC Radio
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
[edit] I. WORKS/BOOKS BY SUDEEP SEN
[edit] I.1 Poetry
Leaning Against the Lamp-Post [1983/1996 Triad/University of South Carolina] The Lunar Visitations [1990 New York: White Swan Books / 1991 New Delhi: Rupa] Kali in Ottava Rima [1992 London: Paramount / 1995 Rupa (including New York Times)] New York Times [1993 London: The Many Press / 1995 Rupa, (including Kali in Ottava Rima )] Parallel [1993 The Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh / Compact Disc/Audio Cassette] South African Woodcut [1994 White Swan Books / Leeds: Peepal Tree Books] Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames [1994 White Swan Books / Peepal Tree Books] Dali's Twisted Hands [1995 White Swan Books / Peepal Tree Books] Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems [1997 HarperCollins] Retracing American Contours [1999 University of South Carolina] In Another Tongue [2000 University of South Carolina / Translations] Almanac [2000 University of South Carolina] Lines of Desrire [2000 University of South Carolina] A Blank Letter [2000 Dhaka: Indian High Commission / Bi-lingual English-Bengali edition] Perpetual Diary [2001 London: Aark Arts] Monsoon [2002 Aark Arts, London. re-issued in 2005 as Rain Prayer Flag [2003 USA: Wings Press, USA / UK: Peepal Tree / CD of poetry & photography with music] Distracted Geography: An Archipelago of Intent [2003 USA: Wings Press, 2004 UK: Peepal Tree, UK, New Delhi: Indialog] Rain [2005 Gallerie & Mapin India /Grantha, USA]
[edit] I.2 PROSE
Postcards from Bangladesh [2002 (with Tanvir Fattah and Kelley Lynch), Dhaka: University Press Limited] BodyText (New & Selected Fiction: forthcoming) Tracing Lines: Selected Prose (Essays & Criticism: forthcoming)
[edit] I.3 EDITOR/CO-EDITOR/TRANSLATOR
1995 Wasafiri Contemporary Writing from India, South Asia & The Diaspora Wasafiri, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London. 1996 Lines Review Twelve Modern Young Indian Poets Lines Review, Edinburgh. 1998 Index for Censorship [Poems] Songs of PartitionLondon: Index for Censorship 2001 Love & Other Poems by Aminur Rahman London: Aark Arts 2001 Hayat Saif: Selected PoemsDhaka: Pathak Samabesh 2001 The British Council Book of Emerging English Poets from Bangladesh Dhaka: The British Council 2001—present: Six Seasons ReviewDhaka: University Press Limited 2003 Spellbound & Other Poems by Fazal Shahabuddin London: Aark Arts 2004 Midnight’s Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia [in Macedonian translation] 2005 Love Poems by Shamshur Rahman & Sudeep Sen 2006 Biblio South Asian English PoetryNew Delhi: Biblio 2006 Atlas 01: New Writing, Art & Image London: Aark Arts & India: Crossword. 2007 Atlas 02: New Writing, Art & ImageLondon: Aark Arts [forthcoming] 2007 Modern English Poetry from Bangladesh Dhaka: University Press Limited [forthcoming] 2007 English Poetry from India [forthcoming]
[edit] I.4 SEN’S BOOKS/CHAPBOOKS IN TRANSLATION
Ekti Khali Chithi [Bengali / trans. Aminur Rahman] Barsha [Bengali / trans. Aminur Rahman] Prarthana Pataka [Bengali / trans. Aminur Rahman] La Sencilla Malta / The Single Malt [Spanish / trans. Raul Jaime] Lluvia / Rain [Spanish / trans. M Dolores Herrero] Remembering Hiroshima Tonight [Greek / trans. Kariofilis Mitsakis] BodyText [Hebrew / trans. Dan Daor] Lines of Desire [Hebrew / trans. Amir Or] Lines of Desire [Romanian / trans. Curtea d Arges] Lines of Desire & Other Poems [Korean / trans. Kim Ku Sul & Park Hae Won] Prayer Flag [Hungarian / trans. Domokos Johanna] Alexander’s Soil: Selected Poems [Macedonian / trans. Zoran Anchevski] Sudeep Sen ki Kavitaye [Hindi / trans. Anamika / work-in-progress]
[edit] I.5 FILMS BY SUDEEP SEN
Directed and co-directed several short films and documentaries, some include: Rhythm, White Shoe Story, Woman of a Thousand Fires, Babylon is Dying: Diary of Third Street, among others.
[edit] I.6 STAGE SHOW/THEATRE/RADIO PLAY BY SUDEEP SEN
Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames ([RADIO PLAY] BBC Radio UK/ Poetry by Sudeep Sen / Produced by Salim Tahir / Music by David Sylvian / Cast: Martha Kapos, Stephen Watts & S Sen) Vesuvius ([STAGE PLAY] Nehru Centre of the Indian High Commission, London / Poetry by Sudeep Sen / Produced by Border Crossing / Directed by Michael Walling / Cast: Anjali Jayadev & M Walling) BodyText ([STAGE PLAY] Harrow Arts Council, UK / Written by by Sudeep Sen / Produced by Border Crossing / Directed by Michael Walling / Cast: Shreya Dave & M Walling) Flying Home ([FILM] Produced by Border Crossing & Arts Council, UK/ Poetry by Sudeep Sen / Directed by Michael Walling / Photography by David Wheeler) Midnight’s Grandchildren: Contemporary Indian Poetry in English ([STAGE SHOW] Struga Poetry Evening (an international poetry festival), Macedonia / Directed by Sudeep Sen / Poetry read by Indian poets and Macedonian actors / Music by Macedonian ensemble) Texture Tone Topography: Poetry & Jazz ([STAGE SHOW] India International Centre, New Delhi / Poetry by Sudeep Sen / Cast: Tom Alter, Rajeev Raja, Sudeep Sen) Rain ([STAGE SHOW] National tour — (The British Council, Delhi), (Times of India Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Bombay), Darpana Arts Academy/Natarani, Ahmedabad), & forthcoming in Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune / Written by Sudeep Sen / Cast: Tom Alter & Sudeep Sen + musicians) T3 & Woman ([STAGE SHOW] The Attic, New Delhi / Poetry & Fiction by Sudeep Sen / Music by Srinibas, Dance by Moumita Ghosh, Dramatic Enactment by Averee Chaurey, Songs by Jayati Ghosh J3: Jibanananda Jazz Jugalbandi ([STAGE SHOW] IAS Officers Club, Hyderabad / Poetry by Sudeep Sen & Hoshang Merchant / Music by Charminar Jazz Collective [Wo]man ([STAGE SHOW] India International Centre National Festival of the Arts, New Delhi / Poetry & Fiction by Sudeep Sen / Vocals by Vidya Rao / Flute by Srinibas / Dance by Moumita Ghosh / Bengali reading by Averee Chaurey
[edit] I.7 SOME IMPORTANT ANTHOLOGIES FEATURING POETRY & PROSE OF SUDEEP SEN
2007 New Writing 15 (London: Granta & British Council) eds. Bernardine Evaristo & Maggie Gee 2007 Norton Poetry Anthology of Contemporary Voices from the East (New York: W.W.Norton) eds. Tina Chang, Nathalie Handel & Ravi Shankar 2006 Ninety-Nine Words (Orissa: Panchabati Publications) ed. Manu Dash 2005 Indian Love Poems (New York: Knopf / London: Everyman Library) ed. Meena Alexander 2005 Confronting Love (Penguin India) eds. Jerry Pinto & Arundhati Subramaniam 2005 Masala (London: Macmillan) ed. Debjani Chatterjee 2003 Midnight’s Grandchildren: Contemporary English Poetry from India ([in Macedonian]SPE, Macedonia) ed. S Sen 2003 Gods, Mongrels & Demons (London: Bloomsbury) ed. Angus Calder 2002 Home & Away: Diaspora Voices (London: Index for Censorship) ed. Ursula Owen & Stephen Watts 2002 From Briarwood to Barishal to Bangladesh (London Arts UK) ed Sanchita Islam 2002 Poems & Sources (USA: Fairleigh Dickinson University) ed Thomas Kennedy & Walter Cummins 2001 Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings (Doaba, New Delhi) eds. Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi & Victor Ramraj 2000 The Redbeck Anthology of South Asian Poetry (Redbeck UK) ed. Debjani Chatterjee 2000 Edinburgh: An Intimate City (Edinburgh Council Scotland) eds B Fraser & E Greig 2000 Vilenica International Writers’ Anthology ([in Slovenian]Drustvo Slovenskih Pisateljev, Ljubljana) ed. Itzok Osojnik 2000 Institutionalizing English Studies: The Post-Colonial/Post-Independence Challenge (Toronto: Ariel) eds. Gauri Viswanathan & Victor Ramraj 1999 Now Read On: Multicultural Reader (Routledge London/New York) eds. John McRae & Edwin Vethamani 1999 Chai (Storey Books Vermont USA) ed. Diana Rosen 1998 Agenda Anthology of Poems Essays Translations (Agenda London) eds. Anita Money & William Cookson 1998 Post-Colonial Discourse in South Asia (Alif Cairo) ed. Ferial Ghazoul & Stephen Alter 1998 Poeti Indiani Del Novecento [di lingua inglese] ([in Italian] Supernova Venice) ed. Shaul Bassi 1998 Songs [Poems] of Partition (Index for Censorship, London) ed. Ursula Owen & Judith Hall Vidal 1998 50th Anniversay of India & Pakistan’s Independence (Ariel Toronto) eds. Malashri Lal, Alamgir Hashmi & Victor Ramraj 1997 India 1997 With Affection (London Magazine UK) ed Alan Ross 1997 Fifty Years of Independence: Poetry from the India Sub-Continent (Acumen UK) ed. Patricia Oxley 1996 Lines Review Twelve Modern Young Indian Poets (Lines Review, Edinburgh) ed. Tessa Ransford 1996 Vox: New Indian Fiction (Sterling Bombay) ed. Jeet Thayil 1995 Wasafiri Contemporary Writing from India, South Asia & The Diaspora (Wasafiri/ QMW College, University of London) ed. Susheila Nasta 1995 The English Review Contemporary Poets 12 (Oxford University/Philip Allan Publishers) eds. John Carey & Cicely Havely Work (Katabasis London) ed. Dinah Livingstone Home (Katabasis London) ed. Kathleen McPhilemy 1993 An Anthology of New Indian English Poetry (Rupa New Delhi) ed. Makarand Paranjape 1992 Barnet Poetry Anthology (Barnet Council London) eds. Dannie Abse, Katherine Gallaghar, Debjani Chatterjee
[edit] II. WORKS/BOOKS ON SUDEEP SEN
[edit] II.1 SELECTED MONOGRAPHS/BOOKS ON SUDEEP SEN
Sudeep Sen: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Kwame Dawes (Sumter: University of South Carolina) Introduction to Sudeep Sen’s Work in Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems by Kwame Dawes (HarperCollins) Sudeep Sen: A Monograph by Philip Drury (work-in-progress) A Critical Study of Sudeep Sen’s Poetry by Rama Nair (work-in-progress) Selected Essays & Reviews on Sudeep Sen ed. Katarina Magdalena Dorn (work-in-progress) The Art of Sudeep Sen ed. M Dolores Herrero (work-in-progress)
[edit] II.2 SOME IMPORTANT REFERENCE/CRITICAL BOOKS FEATURING SUDEEP SEN
Now Read On: Multicultural Reader (Routledge, London/New York) eds. John McRae & Edwin Vethamani Pears Cyclopaedia (Penguin, London/New York) ed Chris Cook Who’s Who of Indian Writers (Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi) ed. K C Dutt Trends and Techniques in Contemporary Indian English Poetry (Prestige, New Delhi) ed. Rama Nair Indian English Literature 1980-2000 (Pencraft International New Delhi) eds. M K Naik & Shyamala A Narayan Journal of Contemporary History (Sage, 1998) ed. Shyamala Narayan Commonwealth & Post-Colonial Literatures (British Council, London) ed. John Thieme Post-Colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary (Arnold, London) ed John Thieme Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) ed. Dominic Head Encyclopaedia of Post-Colonial Literatures (Routledge, London/New York) eds. Benson & Connolly Routledge Companion to Black British Culture (Routledge, London/New York) ed. Allison Donnell The Oxford English Literary History [Vol 13, 1948-2000] (OUP, Oxford) ed. Bruce King Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk (Routledge, London/New York) ed. Susheila Nasta
[edit] II.3 INDIVIDUAL REVIEWS/ESSAYS/INTERVIEWS
See entries and listings in Sudeep Sen: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Kwame Dawes (University of South Carolina) See entries and listings on Sudeep Sen’s website: www.sudeepsen.net See entries and listings on Google and other search engines. ˜
