Spirit Nights

About Easterine Kire

Easterine Kire poet short story writer and novelist was born in Kohima Nagaland a state in Northeast India. In 1982 she was the first Naga poet in to have her poetry published in English. In 2003 she wrote A Naga Village Remembered the first Naga novel in English. Her novel Bitter Wormwood was shortlisted for the Hindu Lit for Life prize in 2013 and in the same year she received the Free Voice Award from Barcelona. In 2016 her novel When the River Sleeps was awarded The Hindu Lit for Life prize. Easterne Kire holds a PhD in English Literature from Poona University. She performs poetry delivers lectures on culture and literature and holds writing workshops in schools and colleges. In an extraordinary fury of poems short stories histories novels and a separate profusion of words and music she calls jazzpoetry this quietly irrepressible one-woman cultural renaissance has pioneered nurtured led and exemplified the modern literary culture of Nagaland while also establishing herself in the front line of contemporary indigenous literature. Vivek Menezes Scroll Easterine Kire is the keeper of her people's memory their griot. She is a master of the unadorned language that moves because of the power of its evocative simplicity.' Prof Emeritus Paul Pimomo