BIO Lee Upton is the author of a novella, two short story collections, and volumes of poetry, literary criticism, and essays. Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, in three editions of The Best American Poetry, and in The New Yorker, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, and other magazines. She is the Francis…
Steffen Horstman
BIO Steffen Horstmann’s poems and book reviews have appeared in publications throughout the world, including Baltimore Review, Free State Review, Istanbul Literary Review, Louisiana Literature, Oyez Review, Texas Poetry Journal, and Tiferet. He has published two books of ghazals, Jalsaghar (2016) and Ujjain (2017). In the Himalayas Mirabai is seen where the lark’s trill echoes in the Himalayas, At dusk when falling snow becomes dust…
Bhanubhakta Acharya: The First Ever Poet of Nepal
He was born on July 13, 1814, in Setighat, Tanahun District of Nepal. He is known for translating the great epic of the Ramayana from the original Sanskrit into Khas language of Nepal. Most of his texts were not available to the Nepali readers for a long time, and he was mainly known for writing the Bhanubhaktey…
Vartalap: An Interview of Dr. Abhi Subedi by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Dr. Abhi Subedi is a significant name in Nepali literature. Born on June 30, 1945, in Tehrathum district in Eastern Nepal, and educated in Nepal and Scottland, he has written over four dozen books of poetry, translation, essay, and playwright. He has done several interdisciplinary studies on the subjects of freedom, culture, literature, arts and…
Firaaq Gorakhpuri: Translated by Huzaifa Pandit
BIO Raghupati Sahay (28 August 1896 – 3 March 1982), better known under his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was a writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India. He established himself among peers including Muhammad Iqbal, Yagana Changezi, Jigar Moradabadi and Josh Malihabadi. BIO Huzaifa Pandit…
Manprasad Subba
BIO Born on September 3rd, 1952, Manprasad Subba is a Nepali poet from Darjeeling, India. He has nine volumes of poetry and a novel to his credit. He has co-authored a book of critical essays and has edited two journals in Nepali and English, as well as two commemorative books. He has also translated Nepali…
Dipika Mukherjee
BIO Dipika Mukherjee is an author and sociolinguist. Her second novel, Shambala Junction, won the UK Virginia Prize for Fiction (Aurora Metro, 2016). Her debut novel was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and republished as Ode to Broken Things (Repeater, 2016). Her short story collection is Rules of Desire (Fixi, 2015) and edited…
Ani Choying Drolma: A Heavenly Voice from Nepal
. Ani Choying Drolma was born in Kathmandu, Nepal to Tibetan refugee parents in 1971. From the age of five, she did not have a day went by without beating to her mother and herself by her father. Seeing lots of sufferings and pains in life, in order to get rid of the tragic destiny…
Review: Immigrant by Usha Kishore
Immigrant- Usha Kishore Review by Prof. Nandini Sahu Paperback: 80 pages Publisher: Eyewear Publishing Language: English ISBN: 9781912477081 ISBN-10: 1912477084 In an unpublished article “Post-Colonial Transformation and Global Culture” that Bill Ashcroft presented at the Department of English and other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, in February 2002, he mentioned about the spatial nature of…
Hemant Biswas: Translated by Mahesh Paudyal
BIO Hemant Biwas, (b. 1974) hails from the Doti district of Nepal. He has made himself known through his metrical poems and songs to Nepali readership. His first collection of prose poems titled Saipalko Angan was launched in 2011. In 2011, he was declared the best lyricist of the year by Radio Nepal. He has published several CD…
Chandra Singh Gurung: Translated by Jayant Sharma
BIO Chandra Singh Gurung is a Bahrain based Nepali poet, who writes in his native language Nepali. His first collection of poems was published in 2007, and his works have appeared in many print and online magazines worldwide. He had also organized many literary events in Nepal, including the event of Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh…
Bhisma Upreti: Translated by Mahesh Poudyal
BIO Bhisma Upreti is a Nepali poet and essay writer. He has published more than a dozen and half books of poetry, essays and a novel. Upreti is the recipient of several awards including first prize in the National Poetry Competition for Nepal and the Creativity Award from the Academy of Indo-Asian Literature in New…