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Sudeep Sen [www.sudeepsen.net] is widely regarded as one of “the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene” (BBC). He read English Literature at the University of Delhi, Hollins University (Virginia), Davidson College (North Carolina) & as an Inlaks Scholar received an MS from Columbia University Journalism School (New York).
His awards, fellowships & residencies include: Hawthornden Fellowship (UK), Pushcart Prize nomination (USA), BreadLoaf (USA), Pleiades (Macedonia), NLPVF (Amsterdam) & Ledig House (New York). He was international writer-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library (Edinburgh) & a visiting scholar at Harvard University.
Sen has written, translated, and edited over a dozen books. His poetry volumes include: The Lunar Visitations (1990), New York Times (1992), Dali's Twisted Hands (1995), Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 1997), Distracted Geographies (2003), Rain (2005), and Blue Nude: New Selected Poems & Translations 1980-2010 is forthcoming.
As an invited author representing his country, he has read his work worldwide, and has been translated into several languages including: Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Malayalam, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
His poetry appears in leading magazines & journals, and in important international anthologies published by Penguin, HarperCollins, Bloomsbury, Routledge, Norton, Knopf, Everyman's Library, Macmillan, and Granta.
His other writings have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Financial Times, Herald, Scotsman, London Magazine, Times of India, Hindu, Outlook & India Today, and broadcast on BBC, CNN, IBN, NDTV, PBS, AIR, among many others.
Sen's recent work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta, 2007) & Language for a New Century (Norton, 2008). He is the editorial director of Aark Arts, editor of Atlas [www.atlasaarkarts.net], and lives in New Delhi & London.
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