Sudeep Sen
Sudeep Sen (born 1964) is an Indian English poet and editor.
Sudeep Sen

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- Born
- 1964
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- Poet
- Education
- Hindu College, Delhi
- Awards
- Kathak Literary Award; Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize Sudeep Sen (born 1964) is an Indian English poet and editor.
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• Born — 1964 • Occupation — Poet • Genre — modernism • Notable Works — New York Times; Monsoon • Education — Hindu College, Delhi • Awards — Kathak Literary Award; Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize Sudeep Sen (born 1964) is an Indian English poet and editor.
Early life
Early life
He was educated at St. Columba's School in Delhi and received a degree in English literature from Hindu College, University of Delhi. He received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Sen also received a master's degree in English and creative writing from Hollins University and was an international scholar at Davidson College. From 1992 to 1993 he was an international poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, and in 1995 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. In 1995 he set up a poetry publishing company, Aark Arts. He has a son named Aria.
Works
Works
Sen's books include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems, Rain, Aria, Postcards from Bangladesh, Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 and EroText.
Poetry
Poetry
• Leaning Against the Lamp-Post (1983) • The Man in the Hut (1986) • The Lunar Visitations (1990) • Kali in Ottava Rima (1992) • Parallel (1993) • New York Times (1993) • South African Woodcut (1994) • Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames (1994) • Dali's Twisted Hands (1995) • Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (1997) • Retracing American Contours (1999) • A Blank Letter (2000) • Lines of Desire (2000) • Almanac (2000) • Perpetual Diary (2001) • Monsoon (2002) • Distracted Geography: An Archipelago of Intent (2003) • Prayer Flag (2003) • Rain (2005) • Heat (2009) • Winter Frances (2010) • Mediterraneo (2012) • Ladakh (2012) • Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1978-2013 (2013) • Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 (2015) • Incarnat | Incarnadine (2017) • Path to Inspiration (2017) (with Setsuko Klossowska de Rola & Homa Arzhangi)
Prose
Prose
• Postcards from Bangladesh (2002) (with Tanvir Fattah & Kelley Lynch) • BodyText: Dramatic Monologues in Motion (2009) • EroText (2016)
Translations
Translations
• In Another Tongue (2000) • Love & Other Poems (2001) • Spellbound & Other Poems (2003) • Love Poems (2005) • Aria (2009)
Editor, co-editor
Editor, co-editor
• 1995 Wasafiri: Contemporary Writing from India, South Asia and the Diaspora. University of London. • 1996 Lines Review Twelve Modern Young Indian Poets. Edinburgh: Lines Review. • 1998 Index for Censorship (poems); Songs of Partition (portfolio). London: Index for Censorship • 2001-18: Six Seasons Review. Dhaka: University Press Limited & London: Aark Arts. • 2001 Hayat Saif: Selected Poems. Dhaka: Pathak Samabesh. • 2001 The British Council Book of Emerging English Poets from Bangladesh. Dhaka: The British Council. • 2002 Dash: Four New German Writers. Berlin: Humboldt University & London: Aark Arts. • 2002 Shawkat Haider: A Day with Destiny. Dhaka: Azeez. • 2004 Midnight's Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India. Macedonia: Struga Poetry Evenings. • 2005 Sestet: Six New Writers. Berlin: Free University & London: Aark Arts. • 2006 Biblio South Asian English Poetry (portfolio). New Delhi: Biblio. • 2006–present Atlas: New Writing, Art & Image. London, New York, New Delhi: Aark Arts. • 2009 The Literary Review. Indian Poetry. Fairleigh Dickinson University. • 2010 World Literature Today: Writing from Modern India. University of Oklahoma. • 2011 Poetry Review Centrefold Portfolio of Indian Poetry. UK: Poetry Review. • 2012 The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. HarperCollins. • 2012 The Yellow Nib: Modern English Poetry by Indians. Belfast: Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queens University. • 2013: The Prairie Schooner Feast Anthology of Poetry by Indian Women. University of Nebraska. • 2015: World English Poetry. Dhaka: Bengal Foundation.
Awards
• Year — Works — Awards • 2022 — Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation — joint-winner of the US$10,000 Rabindranath Tagore Literature Prize for 20221-22 • 2018 — Postcards from Bangladesh — UPL Excellence Award • 2017 — EroText — Global Literary Festival Award for Literary Excellence • 2017 — EroText — Best Book of the Year • 2009 — Aria — AK Ramanujan Translation Award • 2009 — Blue Nude — Jorge Zalamea Poetry Award • 2007 — Kathak Literary Award • 2004 — Pleiades Honour
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- 1."An Interview with Sudeep Sen," Ziaul Karim. World Literature Today. 2012-02-13.
- 2.Kadija Sesay. Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. 275. 2002. 978-1-134-70025-7.
- 3.SudeepSen.com. home page.
- 4.Archived copy.
- 5.UPL recognises 19 books, 16 individuals, six institutions
- 6."EroText is an avant-garde experimental book" – Sudeep Sen – The India Observer. theindiaobserver.com. 12 April 2018.
- 7.Bibliomania, Biblioboom: Best Books of 2017. The Asian Age. 2017-12-31.
- 8.In Verse Proportion
- 9.Sudeep Sen. Poetry Foundation. 2018-09-08.
- 10.Sudeep Sen's powerful poetry wins accolades. The Daily Star. 2007-11-12.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- University of South Carolina. Sudeep Sen: a Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. 1996.
- Panja, Shormishtha. Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English. Routledge. 2005.
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