Pervin SAKET

A portrait of Pervin SAKET.
  • Asia
  • Southern Asia
  • India
English

Pervin SAKET (poet, novelist, editor; India) is the author of the novel Urmila (2016), the poetry collection A Tinge of Turmeric (2009), and a series of ten biographies in verse for children. She won the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize in 2021 and was awarded the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Fellowship the same year. Her most recent poetry manuscript was a finalist for the Gaudy Boy Prize and the Wheelbarrow Books Prize 2024. She works as an editor for academic textbooks, serves as the poetry editor for The Bombay Literary Magazine, and is currently writing her second novel. Her participation is made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. 

Happening Now

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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