Meena Alexander is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including the memoir Fault Lines (named one of the best books of 1993 by Publishers Weekly), the novel Nampally Road (a VLS Editor’s
Choice in 1991), the novel Sandhya
Rosenblum, and Poetics of Dislocation. Her six volumes of poetry include Illiterate Heart, which won the PEN Open Book Award; Raw Silk; and Quickly Changing River. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The New York
Times Magazine, Daedalus, Poetry Review (UK), and Grand Street,
and has been translated into Malayalam, Hindi, Arabic, French, Italian, and German.
Alexander is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center
and Hunter College, City University of New York, and Lecturer in Poetry in the
Writing Program at Columbia University. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, Rockefeller, NEH, Arts Council of England, and other fellowships, and the Modern Language Society's 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award.
Sep-14-2010
London, gb
"Bharat Britain: South Asians Making Britain 1870-1950"
Led by the Open University, in collaboration with the University of Oxford and King’s College London, Making Britain is an inter-disciplinary research project which examines the formative contributions South Asians made to Britain’s literary, political and cultural life in the period 1870–1950. Funded by the AHRC and supported by a number of distinguished partners and academic advisors, the project examines how South Asians positioned themselves within British society and culture, and explores the significance of their impact on British life. It traces some of the key historical links and cultural exchanges between South Asians and Britons, whilst also exploring the tensions that arose from such encounters.
Through extensive new archival research, the project seeks to uncover the rich cultural output of this early diasporic community and heighten public awareness of the depth of South Asian contribution to contemporary British life. As well as producing published outputs, and hosting seminars and a public exhibition, the project is creating an annotated database of material written by and relating to South Asians in Britain, which will soon be linked through this website.
Internationally acclaimed poet and scholar Meena Alexander will appear on the conference's closing plenary roundtable. Other participants include Elleke Boehmer (Chair), Humayun Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London), Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois, US), Bashabi Fraser (Edinburgh Napier University), Vivian Ibrahim (University College Cork).
Sep-24-2010
London, US
Poetry Reading/In Conversation
Poetics of Dislocation: A Poetry Reading by Meena Alexander followed by conversation with Lakshmi Holmstrom
RSVP: sudeept@nehrucentre.org.uk
Author of six volumes of poetry including, Illiterate Heart (which won the PEN Open Book Award), Raw Silk and Quickly Changing River, Meena Alexander is the editor of Indian Love Poems. Her autobiography, Fault Lines, chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books, was revised in 2003 to incorporate new material. She is the author of two novels and two academic studies on early English Romanticism. Her latest book, Poetics of Dislocation, appeared in 2009 in the Poets on Poetry Series, University of Michigan Press. Her fellowships include those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Arts Council of England. She has served on the jury of the Neustadt International Award in Literature and as an Elector, American Poets Corner, Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award in Literature from the South Asian Literary Association for contributions to American Literature, she is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center CUNY. A book of essays on her work, Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander (eds Lopamudra Basu and Cynthia Leenerts) has just appeared from Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. (www.meenaalexander.com)
Writer and translator, Lakshmi Holmström has translated short stories and novels by the major contemporary writers in Tamil. Her most recent books are The rapids of a great river: the Penguin book of Tamil poetry, of which she is a co-editor; and The hour past midnight, a translation of a novel by Salma. In 2000 she received the Crossword Book Award for her translation of Karukku by Bama; in 2007 she shared the Crossword-Hutch Award for her translation of Ambai’s short stories, In a forest, a deer; and she received the Iyal Award from the Tamil Literary Garden, Canada, in 2008. In 2003-6, she was a Royal Literary Fund writing fellow at the University of East Anglia. She is one of the founding trustees of SALIDAA (South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive).
Oct-12-2010
Wellesley, MA
Poetry Reading
Poetry Reading: Meena Alexander and Tomaž Šalamun
Author of six volumes of poetry including, Illiterate Heart (which won the PEN Open Book Award), Raw Silk and Quickly Changing River, Meena Alexander is the editor of Indian Love Poems. Her autobiography, Fault Lines, chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books, was revised in 2003 to incorporate new material. She is the author of two novels and two academic studies on early English Romanticism. Her latest book, Poetics of Dislocation, appeared in 2009 in the Poets on Poetry Series, University of Michigan Press. Her fellowships include those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Arts Council of England. She has served on the jury of the Neustadt International Award in Literature and as an Elector, American Poets Corner, Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award in Literature from the South Asian Literary Association for contributions to American Literature, she is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center CUNY. A book of essays on her work, Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander (eds Lopamudra Basu and Cynthia Leenerts) has just appeared from Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. (www.meenaalexander.com)
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