Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar (born 1979) is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.
Amit Majmudar
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- Name
- Amit Majmudar
- Born
- 1979
- Occupation
- * Novelist
- Education
- University of Akron (BS) Northeast Ohio Medical University (MD)
- Spouse
- Ami
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- O. Henry Award
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Amit Majmudar (born 1979) is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.
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• Name — Amit Majmudar • Born — 1979 • Occupation — * Novelist • poet • Education — University of Akron (BS) Northeast Ohio Medical University (MD) • Spouse — Ami • Children — 3 Amit Majmudar (born 1979) is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.
Life
Life
Majmudar, a son of Gujarati Indian immigrants, grew up in the Cleveland area. He earned a BS at the University of Akron and an MD at Northeast Ohio Medical University. He is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine practicing full-time in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his wife Ami and his twin sons, Shiv and Savya, and daughter Aishani. His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Image, Poetry, National Poetry Review, Smartish Pace, River Styx, and The New Yorker.
Novels
Novels
• Partitions, Metropolitan Books, 2011. * • Sitayana, Penguin, 2019.
Poetry
Poetry
Collections * * * • Dothead, Knopf, 2016 Translations • Godsong: a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita Anthologies • Resistance, rebellion, life: 50 poems now / edited and introduced by Amit Majmudar
2016 Neustadt Jurors Padma Viswanathan, Amit Majmudar, and Jordan Tannahill attend a talk by fellow juror Porochista Khakpour on Persian literature during the 2015 Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture on Wednesday, October 21. Photo by Tyler Christian.
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