"Six poets each from India and China and six poems from each poet, all poems jointly translated: new voices, familiar faces in a new guise, a gallimaufry of the right words in the right order. For teachers and researchers of translation there are PhDs by the dozen here, on the how, the why, and the what of it all. For poetry lovers there is more than the usual ration of delight and surprise, of the catch in the throat, the gasp of recognition, the laugh or the sob that tells you this is the real thing you're reading. This is the new world, the sound of globalisation, waiting for you. When two leading international poets like Sudeep Sen and Yang Lian join their vision and skill to produce an anthology like Himalayas, you get a cracker of a book! " -BRIAN HOLTON
Featuring
from India: Ranjit Hoskote, Jennifer Robertson, Sudeep Sen, Ravi Shankar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, C P Surendran.
from China: Zang Di 臧棣, Yang Lian 杨炼, Yan Rong 晏榕, Dai Weina 戴潍娜, Yang Xiaobin 杨小滨, Wang Ziliang 王自亮.
Sen, Sudeep: - Sudeep Sen's [b.1964] prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Rain, Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award), Fractals: New & Selected Poems Translations 1980-2015 (London Magazine Editions), EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House), Kaifi Azmi: Poems Nazms (Bloomsbury) and Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann). He has edited influential anthologies, including: The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor), World English Poetry, Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians (Sahitya Akademi), and Converse: Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (Pippa Rann). Sen's works have been translated into over 25 languages. His words have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, The Guardian, Observer, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Herald, Poetry Review, Literary Review, Harvard Review, Hindu, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Indian Express, Outlook, India Today, and broadcast on bbc, pbs, cnn ibn, ndtv, air & Doordarshan. He is the editorial director of AARK ARTS, editor of Atlas, and currently the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Museo Camera. Sen is the first Asian honoured to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture and read at the Nobel Laureate Festival. The Government of India awarded him the senior fellowship for "outstanding persons in the field of culture/literature."
Yang Lian: - Yang Lian [b.1955] was born in Switzerland, grew up in China, and now lives in London. He has published 15 volumes of poetry, 2 volumes of prose, and many essays. His work has been translated into more 30 languages, and his representative works include YI, Where the Sea Stands Still; Concentric Circles; Riding Pisces: Poems from Five Collections; Lee Valley Poems, Narrative Poem, Anniversary Snow, A Tower Built Downwards, and others. Among other awards, Yang Lian has won the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (Poland), 2024; the English PEN Award, 2023; the first Sarah McGuire Prize for Poetry in Translation held by Poetry in Translation Centre, 2021. In 2020 he won "Jiu Ge Prize" of the first Miluo Literature Prize in China; in 2019 the Premio Sulmona in Italy; in 2018, the NordSud International Prize for Literature, Italy; the 2018 Janus Pannonius International Poetry Grand in Hungary. In 2017, Narrative Poem was selected as a recommended translation by the UK's Poetry Book Society, and also won the English PEN Award; the 2016 Pacific International Poetry Prize in Taiwan; the 2014 International Capri Prize; the 2012 Nonino International Literature Prize. Yang Lian was a DAAD fellow in Berlin 1991-1992 and a fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2012-2013. He was elected a board member of PEN International in 2008 and 2011. In 2013, he was invited to become a member of The Norwegian Academy for Literature and Freedom of Expression. He lives in Berlin and London.
