The Poetry Society (India) &
India International Centre
cordially invite you
and your friends to
Celebrating Annapurna:
The Majestic Mountain Range in Nepal
Poetry reading by
Yuyutsu Sharma
on Friday, January 17, 2020 at
6-30 p.m. at the
India International Centre (Conference Room I)
40
Max Mueller Marg, Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003
Shri
Amarendra Khatua
Former Secretary MEA & Director
General, ICCR
will preside.
RSVP:
9810329992
Recipient of fellowships and grants
from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar
Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation
of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation
of Dutch Literature, Yuyutsu Sharma is a world renowned Himalayan poet
and translator. He has published
ten poetry collections including, The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal
Earthquake Poems, Nepal
Trilogy, Space
Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Three books of his poetry, Poemes de l’ Himalayas (L’Harmattan,
Paris), Poemas de Los Himalayas
(Cosmopoeticia, Cordoba, Spain) and Jezero Fewa & Konj (Sodobnost
International) have appeared in French,
Spanish and Slovenian respectively.
In addition, Eternal Snow: A Worldwide
Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet
Yuyutsu RD Sharma has just appeared.
Widely travelled author, he has read
his works at several prestigious places and
has held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen's University, Belfast, University of Ottawa and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, University of California, Davis, Sacramento State University, California, Beijing Open University and New York University, New York. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.
has held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen's University, Belfast, University of Ottawa and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, University of California, Davis, Sacramento State University, California, Beijing Open University and New York University, New York. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.
