Fwd: PEN@Prithvi: 12 October 2013 | Anju Makhija & Rizio Yohannan Raj with Menka Shivdasani
Karishma Pais
THE PEN ALL-INDIA CENTRE
invites you, with your friends,
to the October 2013 session of PEN@Prithvi
A READING FROM A DOUBLE-DECKER VOLUME OF POEMS:
Pickling Season by ANJU
MAKHIJA + Naked by the Sabarmati and
Other Guna Poems by RIZIO YOHANNAN RAJ
The reading will be chaired by poet, anthologist and literary organiser MENKA SHIVDASANI
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Date: Saturday, 12 October 2013
Time: 6.30 pm onwards
Place: Prithvi House, 1st floor (opposite Prithvi Theatre, Janki Kutir, Juhu, Bombay)
ALL ARE WELCOME
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This ‘double-decker’ edition of poems, edited by Keki N.
Daruwalla and published by the Sahitya Akademi/ National Academy of Letters,
includes the work of two poets: Anju Makhija and Rizio Yohannan Raj. Anju
Makhija will also present selected verses from the Sahitya Akademi
Award-winning volume, Shah Abdul Latif:
Seeking the Beloved (co-translated with Hari Dilgir). Rizio Yohannan Raj will also discuss her
latest novel, A Tale of Things Timeless.
The readings will be followed by a discussion chaired by poet, anthologist and
literary organiser Menka Shivdasani.
Anju Makhija is a poet, playwright, translator and columnist. She is the author of several books including Seeking the Beloved, a translation of the 16th-century Sufi poet, Shah Abdul Latif; The Last Train and Other Plays; and View from the Web (poems). She has co-edited a collection of Partition poetry, Freedom and Fissures; an anthology of women’s verse, We Speak In Changing Languages; and a three-volume series of plays. Makhija has won numerous awards including the BBC World Poetry Prize (2002).
Rizio Yohannan Raj is a bi-lingual writer, translator and educationist. Her works include two collections of poetry in English (Eunuch, Naked by the Sabarmati and Other Guna Poems), and two novels in Malayalam (Avinasom, Yatrikom), the first of which has been translated as A Tale of Things Timeless (HarperCollins, 2012). Her academic work includes Quest of a Discipline: New Academic Directions for Comparative Literature. She is the founder-director of Lila Foundation for Translocal Initiatives, a trust dedicated to the cause of education and life appreciation.
Menka Shivdasani is co-translator of Freedom and Fissures, an anthology of Sindhi Partition poetry. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry Review (London), Poetry Wales, Fulcrum (USA), ARC (Canada), Both Sides of the Sky (National Book Trust) and Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets. Most recently, she guest-edited an online anthology of Indian poetry for the US-based www.bigbridge.org. She is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators Association. In 1986, she played a key role in founding Poetry Circle, Mumbai.
RANJIT HOSKOTE
General Secretary
The PEN All-India Centre
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