March session of PEN@Prithvi

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

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VINAY DHARWADKER was born in Pune and educated in schools in Mumbai, Delhi, and Jaipur. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from St Stephen’s College and the University of Delhi, and his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago, where he studied with A. K. Ramanujan and Wayne Booth. He is currently Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he teaches languages, literatures, cultural history, and literary theory.

Dharwadker is the author of two books of poems, Sunday at the Lodi Gardens (Viking, 1994) and Someone Else’s Paradise (forthcoming). He is the editor, with Ramanujan, of The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry (1994); a co-editor of The Collected Poems of A. K. Ramanujan (1995); and the general editor of The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan (1999), all published by Oxford University Press. His recent scholarly work includes Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture (editor; Routledge, 2001) and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture, vol. 6, Asia and Pacific Oceania (editor for South and Southeast Asia; Greenwood, 2007).

Dharwadker translates poetry into English from Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, and Sanskrit. Among his major translation projects are Kabir: The Weaver’s Songs (Penguin Classics, 2003, 2005); and Ghalib: Selected Poetry and Prose (Penguin Classics, forthcoming). Work-in-progress includes The Earth’s Body: Seven Modern Marathi Poets (B. S. Mardhekar, P. S. Rege, Indira Sant, Vinda Karandikar, Mangesh Padgaokar, Arun Kolatkar, Namdeo Dhasal) and Unfinished Business: Five Modern Hindi Poets (Dhoomil, Shrikant Verma, Raghuvir Sahay, Kunwar Narain, Kedarnath Singh).

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