All India Poetry Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 7 (1997) Winner
Ranjit Hoskote
ランジット・ホスコテ
Ranjit Hoskote
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1969 （Bombay (now Mumbai), India）
- Nationality
- India
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Mumbai, India
Career
- Occupations
- poet, art critic, cultural theorist, curator
- Active Years
- 1991-2024
- Affiliations
- PEN All-India Centre, Poetry Circle Bombay, The Times of India, The Hindu
- Memberships
- PEN All-India Centre (General Secretary), Poetry Circle Bombay (former President)
- Influenced By
- Dom Moraes, Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan
- Influenced
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bombay Scottish School | — | — | — | — | India |
| Elphinstone College | — | Politics | BA | — | India |
| University of Bombay | — | English Literature and Aesthetics | MA | — | India |
Bombay Scottish School
Country:
India
School education
Elphinstone College
Politics
Degree:
BA
Country:
India
BA in Politics
University of Bombay
English Literature and Aesthetics
Degree:
MA
Country:
India
MA in English Literature and Aesthetics
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award | — | — | Sahitya Akademi | 受賞 |
| — | Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation | — | — | Sahitya Akademi | 受賞 |
| 2022 | 7th JLF-Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry | — | — | Jaipur Literature Festival | 受賞 |
Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award
2004
Organization:
Sahitya Akademi
Result:
受賞
Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation
Organization:
Sahitya Akademi
Result:
受賞
7th JLF-Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry
2022
Organization:
Jaipur Literature Festival
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Jonahwhale
2018 PoetryExpansive poetry collection with luminous metaphors.
imageryhistorymyth
Hunchprose
2021 PoetryExploration of intuition and prose-like poetry.
intuitioncontemporaneity
I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded
2011 Translated PoetryTranslation of 14th-century Kashmiri mystic-poet Lal Ded's poems.
mysticismspirituality
Bibliography
- Zones of Assault (1991)
- The Cartographer’s Apprentice (2000)
- The Sleepwalker’s Archive (2001)
- Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985–2005 (2006)
- Central Time (2014)
- Jonahwhale (2018)
- Hunchprose (2021)
Translations by Author
- Translation of Vasant Abaji Dahake's A Terrorist of the Spirit (1992)
- Translation of Ilija Trojanow's Along the Ganga (2005)
- Translation of Lal Ded's I, Lalla (2011)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- luminous and sensuous metaphorsartisanal virtuosityfable-like watermark
- Recurring Motifs
- crisis and critiquenomad positiontransformative listening
Legacy
Key figure in contemporary Indian poetry and art criticism. Recipient of Sahitya Akademi awards. Renowned international curator.
Quotes
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His writing has revealed a consistent and exceptional brilliance in its treatment of image. Hoskote’s metaphors are finely wrought, luminous and sensuous.
Source: Poetry International Web (Arundhathi Subramaniam) -
It is the way he hangs on to a metaphor, and the subtlety with which he does it, that draws my admiration... Hoskote’s poems bear the 'watermark of fable'.
Source: The Hindu (Keki Daruwalla) (2001)
Trivia
- Married to curator Nancy Adajania.
- Resigned from Documenta 2027 artistic director selection committee.