Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1978-2013

About Sudeep Sen

Sudeep Sen studied at University of Delhi and as an Inlaks Scholar received an MS from Columbia University (New York). His awards/fellowships include: Hawthornden (UK) Pushcart Prize nomination (USA) BreadLoaf (USA) Pleiades (Macedonia) NLPVF Dutch Foundation for Literature (Amsterdam) Ledig House (New York) and Sanskriti (New Delhi). He was international writer-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library (Edinburgh) and visiting scholar at Harvard University. Sen is widely recognised as a major new generation voice in world literature and one of India's finest English-language poets in the international literary scene (BBC Radio). He received a Pleiades Honour (at the Struga Poetry Festival Macedonia) for having made a significant contribution to contemporary world poetry. Sen's prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins) Distracted Geographies Rain Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award) Ladakh and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor). His poems translated into twenty-five languages have been featured in major international anthologies. His words have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement Newsweek Guardian Observer Independent Telegraph Herald Harvard Review Hindu Hindustan Times Times of India Outlook India Today and broadcast on BBC PBS CNN IBN NDTV AIR & Doordarshan. Sen's newer work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta) Language for a New Century (Norton) Leela (Collins) Indian Love Poems (Knopf/Random House/Everyman) Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe) and Initiate: Oxford New Writing (Blackwell). He is the editorial director of AARK ARTS and the editor of Atlas. As a photographer and graphic artist his work is part of many professional print portfolios magazine and newspaper pieces book jacket covers and private collections. He has also published two books of photography Prayer Flag and Postcards from Bangladesh. Sen lives and works in New Delhi. Sen was the first Asian to be honoured with an invitation to participate at the Nobel Laureate Week in St Lucia in 2013 where he delivered the Derek Walcott Lecture and read his own poetry. A special commemorative edition of his work Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1978-2013 was released by the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott himself. The same year the Government of India Ministry of Cultures awarded him the senior fellowship for outstanding persons in the field of culture.