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Sudeep Sen (born 1964) is an Indian English poet and editor.[1]

Sudeep Sen
Born	1964 (age 57–58)
Occupation	Poet
Alma mater	Hindu College, Delhi
Genre	modernism
Notable works	New York Times; Monsoon
Notable awards	Kathak Literary Award

Early life

He was educated at St Columba's School in Delhi and received a degree in English literature from Hindu College, University of Delhi. He received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Sen also received a master's degree in English and creative writing from Hollins University, and was an international scholar at Davidson College. From 1992 to 1993 he was international poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, and in 1995 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University.[2][1] In 1995 he set up a poetry publishing company, Aark Arts. He has a son named Aria.[2]

Works

Sen's books include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems, Rain, Aria, Postcards from Bangladesh, Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 and EroText. [3]^{[self-published source]}

Poetry

• Leaning Against the Lamp-Post (1983)
• The Man in the Hut (1986)
• The Lunar Visitations (1990)
• Kali in Ottava Rima (1992)
• Parallel (1993)
• New York Times (1993)
• South African Woodcut (1994)
• Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames (1994)
• Dali's Twisted Hands (1995)
• Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (1997)
• Retracing American Contours (1999)
• A Blank Letter (2000)
• Lines of Desire (2000)
• Almanac (2000)
• Perpetual Diary (2001)
• Monsoon (2002)
• Distracted Geography: An Archipelago of Intent (2003)
• Prayer Flag (2003)
• Rain (2005)
• Heat (2009)
• Winter Frances (2010)
• Mediterraneo (2012)
• Ladakh (2012)
• Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1978-2013 (2013)
• Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 (2015)
• Incarnat | Incarnadine (2017)
• Path to Inspiration (2017) (with Setsuko Klossowska de Rola & Homa Arzhangi)

Prose

• Postcards from Bangladesh (2002) (with Tanvir Fattah & Kelley Lynch)
• BodyText: Dramatic Monologues in Motion (2009)
• EroText (2016)

Translations

• In Another Tongue (2000)
• Love & Other Poems (2001)
• Spellbound & Other Poems (2003)
• Love Poems (2005)
• Aria (2009)

Editor, co-editor

• 1995 Wasafiri: Contemporary Writing from India, South Asia and the Diaspora. University of London.
• 1996 Lines Review Twelve Modern Young Indian Poets. Edinburgh: Lines Review.
• 1998 Index for Censorship (poems); Songs of Partition (portfolio). London: Index for Censorship
• 2001-18: Six Seasons Review. Dhaka: University Press Limited & London: Aark Arts.
• 2001 Hayat Saif: Selected Poems. Dhaka: Pathak Samabesh.
• 2001 The British Council Book of Emerging English Poets from Bangladesh. Dhaka: The British Council.
• 2002 Dash: Four New German Writers. Berlin: Humboldt University & London: Aark Arts.
• 2002 Shawkat Haider: A Day with Destiny. Dhaka: Azeez.
• 2004 Midnight's Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India. Macedonia: Struga Poetry Evenings (in Macedonian).
• 2005 Sestet: Six New Writers. Berlin: Free University & London: Aark Arts.
• 2006 Biblio South Asian English Poetry (portfolio). New Delhi: Biblio.
• 2006–present Atlas: New Writing, Art & Image. London, New York, New Delhi: Aark Arts.
• 2009 The Literary Review. Indian Poetry. Fairleigh Dickinson University.
• 2010 World Literature Today: Writing from Modern India. University of Oklahoma.
• 2011 Poetry Review Centrefold Portfolio of Indian Poetry. UK: Poetry Review.
• 2012 The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. HarperCollins.
• 2012 The Yellow Nib: Modern English Poetry by Indians. Belfast: Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queens University.
• 2013: The Prairie Schooner Feast Anthology of Poetry by Indian Women. University of Nebraska.
• 2015: World English Poetry. Dhaka: Bengal Foundation.

Awards

Year	Works	Awards
2018	Postcards from Bangladesh	UPL Excellence Award[4]
2017	EroText	Global Literary Festival Award for Literary Excellence[5]
2017	EroText	Best Book of the Year[6]
2009	Aria	AK Ramanujan Translation Award[7]
2009	Blue Nude	Jorge Zalamea Poetry Award[8]
2007		Kathak Literary Award[9]
2004		Pleiades Honour[citation needed]

References

Further reading

• Dawes, K., ed. (1996). Sudeep Sen: a Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. South Carolina: University of South Carolina.
• Panja, Shormishtha (2005). "Sen, Sudeep (1964-)". In Benson, Eugene; Conolly, L. W. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English. London: Routledge – via Credo Reference.

External links

• Personal website
• British Council profile
• Listen to Sudeep Sen reading his poetry - a British Library recording, 1 November 2010.

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