POETRY Evening with Jeet Thayil & Keki N. Daruwalla at Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri > 7pm on 29th March 2016

Time :  7:00 pm Add to Calendar 29/03/2016 19:00 29/03/2016 21:00 Asia/Kolkata POETRY Evening with Jeet Thayil & Keki N. Daruwalla Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/03/poetry-evening-with-jeet-thayil-keki-n.html Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 110021 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 110021
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Event Description : An Evening of Poetry with Jeet Thayil & Keki N. Daruwalla

Jeet Thayil (born 1959 in Kerala) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is best known as a poet and is the author of four collections: These Errors Are Correct (Tranquebar, 2008), English (2004, Penguin India, Rattapallax Press, New York, 2004), Apocalypso (Ark, 1997) and Gemini (Viking Penguin, 1992). His first novel, Narcopolis, (Faber & Faber, 2012), was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the Hindu Literary Prize 2013.


Keki N. Daruwalla (born 1937) is a major Indian poet and short story writer in English language. He has written over 12 books and published his first novel For Pepper and Christ in 2009. He is also a former Indian Police Service officer, who retired as Additional Director in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1984 for his poetry collection, The Keeper of the Dead, by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. He was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, in 2014.

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POETRY Evening with Jeet Thayil & Keki N. Daruwalla at Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri > 7pm on 29th March 2016 POETRY Evening with Jeet Thayil & Keki N. Daruwalla at Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri > 7pm on 29th March 2016 Reviewed by Delhi Events on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Rating: 5

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