LILA Foundation presents 'Voices in Verse' a unique multicultural poetry evening at Sahitya Akademi, 3rd Floor, Rabindra Bhavan, 35, Ferozeshah Road > 5:30pm on 6th August 2014
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LILA Foundation presents 'Voices in Verse' a unique multicultural poetry evening
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Conference Hall, Sahitya Akademi, 3rd Floor, Rabindra Bhavan, 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi-110001
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Venue : Conference Hall, Sahitya Akademi, 3rd Floor, Rabindra Bhavan, 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi-110001 Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Mandi House (Blue Line and Violet Line) Exit Gate - 4'
Event Description : LILA Foundation presents 'Voices in Verse' a unique multicultural poetry evening.
LILA Foundation and Sahitya Akademi welcome you to Voices in Verse, organised under LILA's cultural banner Bearing Witness, by bringing together seven poets from diverse cultural backgrounds. They have raised their voices, often ironically inverted, in an effort to cope with our times fraught with differences that are made to appear irreconcilable. We celebrate their subversiveness as well as their capacity for dynamic co-habitation. We believe the voice of poetry rises at the right time, inspiring us to creative action.
The evening will progress as follows:
Welcome: K Sreenivasarao (Secretary, Sahitya Akademi)
Opening remarks: Rizio Yohannan Raj (Poet; Executive Director, LILA)
Keynote: Eddin Khoo (Poet; Founder, PUSAKA)
Poetry reading and conversation, chaired by K. Satchidanandan (Poet and critic)
Participants:
Anamika is a Delhi-based poet who writes in Hindi. A lecturer at the Department of English at Satyawati College, Delhi, she has five collections of poetry to her credit. Over the years, she has won numerous accolades for her literary work, including the Bharat Bhushan Award for Poetry (1996), the Girija Mathur Samman (1998), the Sahityakar Samman (1998), the Parampara Samman (2001) and the Sahityasetu Samman (2004). In addition to poetry, she has authored volumes of fiction, memoir and criticism, and undertaken translations of the works of Octavio Paz, Rilke, Rabindranath Tagore and Girish Karnad.
Eddin Khoo is one of the most important cultural activists and thinkers in today’s Malaysia. A poet, writer, journalist, translator and teacher, he is the founder of PUSAKA – Centre for Culture, Tradition, Ideas – a cultural organisation dedicated to studying and preserving forms of traditional and ritual theatre. A self-described half-Chinese, half-Indian mix, the translator of Moby Dick, an expert on Islamic art, a political analyst, since 2002 Khoo has been tirelessly working to revive the tradition of Wayang Kulit, Malaysian shadow puppetry.
K Satchidanandan is one of the most widely translated of contemporary Indian poets, with 23 collections available in 19 languages. Writing in Malayalam and English, he has also authored several books that include plays, critical works, translations and travelogues. He has introduced writers from Black, Latin American, European and Indian poetry to Malayalam readers, such as Neruda, Block, Vallejo, Brecht and Celan. He was Editor of Indian Literature, the journal of the Sahitya Akademi and the executive head of the Sahitya Akademi between 1996 and 2006. He is a Fellow of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and has won a variety of literary awards and fellowships. He has represented Indian poetry at a number of forums and festivals across the world..
Michael Creighton is a poet from Portland, Oregon. He is now settled in Delhi with his partner and three children and works as a middle school teacher. He is interested in the beauty and ugliness that surrounds us – and what these images reveal about ourselves, our neighbors, and the spaces we share. Most days, he commutes by cycle, metro or DTC bus, so he asks you to kindly refrain from driving your car or motorbike in lanes designated for public transportation or non-motorised vehicles! His works have appeared in various journals and newspapers, both in India and abroad.
Rizio Yohannan Raj is a bi-lingual writer, translator, and educationist. Her works include three collections of poetry in English: Eunuch (2010), Naked by the Sabarmati and Other Guna Poems (2012) and Exchanges with the Thinker (2013). She is also the author of two novels in Malayalam (Avinasomand Yatrikom), the first of which is translated into English as A Tale of Things Timeless (2012). She has translated and introduced major 20th century Malayalam writers into English, including the works of Kumaran Asan, the pioneer of modern Malayalam poetry. Rizio is the Founder and Executive Director of LILA.
Sudeep Sen internationally recognized as a major voice of the new generation of world literature. Sen’s prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies, Rain, Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award), Ladakh, and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor). Blue Nude: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1979-2014 (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Prize) is forthcoming from Partridge | Penguin Random House. His poems, translated into twenty-five languages, have featured in major international anthologies. He is also a widely published photographer and graphic artist. Sen is the first Asian to be honoured with an invitation to participate at the 2013 Nobel Laureate Week in St Lucia, where he delivered the Derek Walcott Lecture and read his own poetry. The Government of India’s Ministry of Culture awarded him the senior fellowship for “outstanding persons in the field of culture”.
Vanita is a poet, literary critic, translator and a lecturer in Punjabi. The author of more than forty texts, among which her latest monograph, Bhartiya Sahitya ke Nirmata: Sutinder Singh Noor (Sahitya Akademi, 2013). Vanita has received a number of awards, including the Criticism Award of the Punjabi Academy in 2001, the IAPAA Award in 2007, the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award in 2009, the Poetry Award of the Punjabi Academy in 2010 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011 for her translation of Kaal Pehar Ghariyan into Hindi. She has published works in many magazines and journals, and participated in various radio broadcasts.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Venue : Conference Hall, Sahitya Akademi, 3rd Floor, Rabindra Bhavan, 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi-110001 Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Mandi House (Blue Line and Violet Line) Exit Gate - 4'
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LILA Foundation and Sahitya Akademi welcome you to Voices in Verse, organised under LILA's cultural banner Bearing Witness, by bringing together seven poets from diverse cultural backgrounds. They have raised their voices, often ironically inverted, in an effort to cope with our times fraught with differences that are made to appear irreconcilable. We celebrate their subversiveness as well as their capacity for dynamic co-habitation. We believe the voice of poetry rises at the right time, inspiring us to creative action.
The evening will progress as follows:
Welcome: K Sreenivasarao (Secretary, Sahitya Akademi)
Opening remarks: Rizio Yohannan Raj (Poet; Executive Director, LILA)
Keynote: Eddin Khoo (Poet; Founder, PUSAKA)
Poetry reading and conversation, chaired by K. Satchidanandan (Poet and critic)
Participants:
Anamika is a Delhi-based poet who writes in Hindi. A lecturer at the Department of English at Satyawati College, Delhi, she has five collections of poetry to her credit. Over the years, she has won numerous accolades for her literary work, including the Bharat Bhushan Award for Poetry (1996), the Girija Mathur Samman (1998), the Sahityakar Samman (1998), the Parampara Samman (2001) and the Sahityasetu Samman (2004). In addition to poetry, she has authored volumes of fiction, memoir and criticism, and undertaken translations of the works of Octavio Paz, Rilke, Rabindranath Tagore and Girish Karnad.
Eddin Khoo is one of the most important cultural activists and thinkers in today’s Malaysia. A poet, writer, journalist, translator and teacher, he is the founder of PUSAKA – Centre for Culture, Tradition, Ideas – a cultural organisation dedicated to studying and preserving forms of traditional and ritual theatre. A self-described half-Chinese, half-Indian mix, the translator of Moby Dick, an expert on Islamic art, a political analyst, since 2002 Khoo has been tirelessly working to revive the tradition of Wayang Kulit, Malaysian shadow puppetry.
K Satchidanandan is one of the most widely translated of contemporary Indian poets, with 23 collections available in 19 languages. Writing in Malayalam and English, he has also authored several books that include plays, critical works, translations and travelogues. He has introduced writers from Black, Latin American, European and Indian poetry to Malayalam readers, such as Neruda, Block, Vallejo, Brecht and Celan. He was Editor of Indian Literature, the journal of the Sahitya Akademi and the executive head of the Sahitya Akademi between 1996 and 2006. He is a Fellow of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and has won a variety of literary awards and fellowships. He has represented Indian poetry at a number of forums and festivals across the world..
Michael Creighton is a poet from Portland, Oregon. He is now settled in Delhi with his partner and three children and works as a middle school teacher. He is interested in the beauty and ugliness that surrounds us – and what these images reveal about ourselves, our neighbors, and the spaces we share. Most days, he commutes by cycle, metro or DTC bus, so he asks you to kindly refrain from driving your car or motorbike in lanes designated for public transportation or non-motorised vehicles! His works have appeared in various journals and newspapers, both in India and abroad.
Rizio Yohannan Raj is a bi-lingual writer, translator, and educationist. Her works include three collections of poetry in English: Eunuch (2010), Naked by the Sabarmati and Other Guna Poems (2012) and Exchanges with the Thinker (2013). She is also the author of two novels in Malayalam (Avinasomand Yatrikom), the first of which is translated into English as A Tale of Things Timeless (2012). She has translated and introduced major 20th century Malayalam writers into English, including the works of Kumaran Asan, the pioneer of modern Malayalam poetry. Rizio is the Founder and Executive Director of LILA.
Sudeep Sen internationally recognized as a major voice of the new generation of world literature. Sen’s prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies, Rain, Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award), Ladakh, and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor). Blue Nude: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1979-2014 (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Prize) is forthcoming from Partridge | Penguin Random House. His poems, translated into twenty-five languages, have featured in major international anthologies. He is also a widely published photographer and graphic artist. Sen is the first Asian to be honoured with an invitation to participate at the 2013 Nobel Laureate Week in St Lucia, where he delivered the Derek Walcott Lecture and read his own poetry. The Government of India’s Ministry of Culture awarded him the senior fellowship for “outstanding persons in the field of culture”.
Vanita is a poet, literary critic, translator and a lecturer in Punjabi. The author of more than forty texts, among which her latest monograph, Bhartiya Sahitya ke Nirmata: Sutinder Singh Noor (Sahitya Akademi, 2013). Vanita has received a number of awards, including the Criticism Award of the Punjabi Academy in 2001, the IAPAA Award in 2007, the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award in 2009, the Poetry Award of the Punjabi Academy in 2010 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011 for her translation of Kaal Pehar Ghariyan into Hindi. She has published works in many magazines and journals, and participated in various radio broadcasts.
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LILA Foundation presents 'Voices in Verse' a unique multicultural poetry evening at Sahitya Akademi, 3rd Floor, Rabindra Bhavan, 35, Ferozeshah Road > 5:30pm on 6th August 2014
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