Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convertiendse en Characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection.
AGNI 94
Print Only
from Letters from a Kashmiri Boy
Geet Chaturvedi, who writes in Hindi, has authored two collections of novellas, three collections of poetry, and two books of nonfiction. His poems have been translated into twenty-two languages. A recipient of the Syed Haidar Raza Fellowship for fiction writing, he has won the Bharat Bhushan Agrawal Award for poetry and the Krishna Pratap Award for fiction. He was named among the Ten Best Writers of India by the English-language daily The Indian Express. He lives in Bhopal. (updated 10/2021)
Anita Gopalan is the translator of Geet Chaturvedi’s The Memory of Now (Anomalous Press, 2019). Her translations have also appeared in PEN America, Poetry International, World Literature Today, Words without Borders, AGNI, Chicago Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, and elsewhere. Recipient of a fellowship in English literature from the Indian Ministry of Culture and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, she also works as a stock trader. (updated 10/2021)