Sudeep Sen

Sudeep Sen (born 1964) is an Indian English poet and editor living in London and New Delhi.

Early life

Sen studied at St Columba's School and read literature at Hindu College, University of Delhi. As an Inlaks Scholar, he received a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York City. Sen was an international poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

Works

Poet

His books include Postcards from Bangladesh, Prayer Flag, Distracted Geographies, and Rain.^[1] He has edited anthologies including The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry by Indians (2011), World Literature Today Writing from Modern India (2010),The Literary Review Indian Poetry (2009) and Midnight's Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India (2004). His work appears in anthologies such as Indian Love Poems (2005), New Writing 15 (2007), Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (2008) and Initiate: An Anthology of New Oxford Writing (2010).

Sen has been translated into other languages including Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Malayalam, Persian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.^[1]

Sen's writings have appeared in newspapers, magazines, journals, and broadcast on radio and television. They include: the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Independent, The Financial Times, Poetry Review, Literary Review and the Harvard Review. He has broadcast on BBC World (TV), BBC Radio, PBS, Radio Tehran and Radio Jerusalem. He has written, edited and translated over 30 books and chapbooks.^[2]

Director

Sen has directed or co-directed several short films and documentaries, including Rhythm, White Shoe Story, Woman of a Thousand Fires, Babylon is Dying: Diary of Third Street (nominated for a student Emmy Award), and Flying Home.

Recognition

Sen received a Hawthornden Fellowship (UK) and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize (US) for poems included in Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins).^[1] He won an A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award.

Sen is a member of The Plimpton Circle of The Paris Review, curator of the 'World Poetry Portfolio' series for Molossus, and serves on the editorial boards of The Literary Review, International Literary Quarterly, Orient Express and New Quest. In 2008 he was appointed director of the Delhi International Literary Festival. In 2010, he was the first foreign co-judge for the Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition. He is the editorial director of Aark Arts publishers and editor of Atlas.^[1]

Bibliography

• Dali's Twisted Hands (poetry). Peepal Tree Press, 1995.
• Distracted Geography: An Archipelago of Intent (poetry in English). New Delhi: Indialog Publications, India, 2004. ISBN 1-900715-34-1
• Kali in Ottava Rima (poetry), 1992.
• Leaning Against the Lamp-Post (poetry), 1983.
• The Lunar Visitations (poetry in English). New Delhi: Rupa & Co, India, 1991. ISBN 1-878122-00-2
• Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames (poetry). Peepal Tree Press, 1995.
• New York Times (1993).
• Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (poetry in English). New Delhi: HarperCollins, India, 1997. ISBN 1-878122-00-2
• Prayer Flag (poetry) Peepal Tree Press, 2004.
• South African Woodcut (poetry). Peepal Tree Press, 1995.

As editor

• The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry by Indians (2011).
• World Literature Today Writing from Modern India (2010).
• The Literary Review Indian Poetry (2009).
• Midnight's Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India (2004).
• Biblio South Asian English Poetry (2006, a portfolio).

References

Further reading

• Panja, Shormishtha (2005). "Sen, Sudeep (1964-)". In Benson, Eugene; Conolly, L. W. Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English. London: Routledge – via Credo Reference. 

External links

• Official website
• British Council profile
• Atlas
• Guardian Review
• Guardian Review
• Listen to Sudeep Sen reading his poetry - a British Library recording, 1 November 2010.