Akhil KATYAL

2016 Resident

Asia

Southern Asia

India

English

Hindi

Akhil KATYAL (poet, translator; India) has translated works by Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Agha Shahid Ali, Amrita Pritam, and others. He teaches English literature at Shiv Nadar University, near New Delhi. His most recent collection of poetry is Night Charge Extra, published in 2015. He participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

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Journalist, essayist and poet Harris KHALIQUE (IWP '15) has been appointed the Secretary General of Pakistan's Human Rights Commission.
An interview in LARB with Moshe SAKAL (Israel, IWP '11) aboutThe Diamond Setter, his first novel to be translated into English.
With Indonesia the featured country of the 2019 London Book Fair, Laksmi PAMUNTJAK (IWP '06) was one of the keynote speakers.
Among the 2019 recipients of the distinguished Wyndham-Campbell awards, selected to “call attention to literary achievement” and allow writers to “focus on their work independent of financial concerns" is Kwame DAWES (IWP '86).
The London Book Fair names Jeremy TIANG (Singapore, IWP '11) "Literary Translator of the Fair," a first ever so honored.

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