Thursday, December 5, 2019

Celebrating Annapurna: The Majestic Mountain Range in Nepal -- Poetry reading by Yuyutsu Sharma



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 additionEternal 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.