Sukrita Paul Kumar
{{short description|Indian poet, critic, and academic}}
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Sukrita Paul Kumar is an Indian poet, critic, and academic.{{Cite web|title=INTERVIEW {{!}} Try not to be lazy: Poet Sukrita Paul Kumar gives writing advice|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/2020/oct/04/interview--try-not-to-be-lazy-poet-sukritapaul-kumar-gives-writing-advice-2205431.html|access-date=2022-02-13|website=The New Indian Express|date=4 October 2020 }}{{Cite web|date=2021-09-30|title=In conversation: On the new 'Writer in Context' book series|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/in-conversation-on-the-new-writer-in-context-book-series-101632998270885.html|access-date=2022-02-13|website=Hindustan Times|language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Kumar|first=Sukrita Paul|date=2015-09-03|title=The language of many tongues|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/the-language-of-many-tongues/article7612174.ece|access-date=2022-02-13|issn=0971-751X}} She has been the chief editor of Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Literary Traditions of India – a textbook prescribed by the University of Delhi for course use in its Honours B.A. programme.{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/confessions-of-the-multilingual/article2253900.ece | title=Confessions of the Multi-lingual | work=The Hindu | date=5 October 2007 | accessdate=27 September 2016}}
Early life and background
Sukrita Paul Kumar was born in Nairobi, Kenya{{cite web |url=https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/sukrita-paul-kumar-5715.html |title=Sukrita Paul Kumar | ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival |access-date=2015-08-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150424153448/http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/sukrita-paul-kumar-5715.html |archive-date=2015-04-24 }} and emigrated to India when Kenya obtained its freedom from the British. She was educated at Zakir Husain College, Hindu College and Government College of Arts and Sciences, Marathwada University, India.{{citation needed|date = November 2019}}
Career
As director of a UNESCO project on 'The Culture of Peace', she edited Mapping Memories - a volume of Urdu short stories from India and Pakistan.Funny part is, she does not know Urdu.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Kumar+Sukrita+Paul|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050408164013/http://www.sawnet.org/books/authors.php?Kumar+Sukrita+Paul|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 8, 2005|title=SAWNET: Bookshelf: Sukrita Paul Kumar|website=www.sawnet.org|access-date=2016-05-30}} Many of her poems,{{cite web |title=Poetry In Our Time |url=http://www.kritya.in/04/en/poetry_at_our_time9.html |website=Kritya.in |access-date=2015-08-28 |archive-date=2020-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726082923/http://www.kritya.in/04/en/poetry_at_our_time9.html |url-status=dead }} have emerged from her experience of working with homeless people, tsunami victims, and street children.
Fellowships/Awards/Grants
Books
= Critical =
- Narrating Partition: Texts, Interpretations, Ideas. Indialog Publications, New Delhi, 2004{{cite web | url=https://ducic.ac.in/Sukrita-Paul-Kumar-Aruna-Asaf-Chair | title=About Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar | publisher=Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi. | accessdate=27 September 2016 | archive-date=12 November 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112141303/http://ducic.ac.in/Sukrita-Paul-Kumar-Aruna-Asaf-Chair | url-status=dead }}
- The New Story: A study of Literary Modernism in Urdu and Hindi Short Fiction. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla with Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1990
- Conversations on Modernism: Dialogues with Writers, Critics and Philosophers. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla with Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1990
- Man, Woman and Androgyny: A study of the Novels of Theodore Dreiser, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Indus Publishing Co. New Delhi, 1989
= Edited =
- The Dying Sun: Stories by Joginder Paul Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar, HarperCollins, New Delhi, 2013
- Chamba Achamba Co-Edited with Malashri Lal, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2012
- Speaking for Myself Co-Edited with Malashri Lal, Penguin India, New Delhi, 2009
- Crossing Over Co-Edited with Frank Stewart, University of Hawaii, Hawaii, 2009
- Interpreting Home in South Asia Co-Edited with Malashri Lal, Pearson Longman's, New Delhi, 2007
- Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Literary Traditions of India Chief Editor: Sukrita Paul Kumar, Macmillan India, New Delhi, 2006 (Textbook prescribed by Delhi University as Concurrent Course for B.A Honours.)
- Women's Studies in India: Contours of Change Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Malashri Lal,
IIAS, Shimla, 2002. (Collection of Essays)
- Ismat, Her Life Her Times Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Sadique. ALT (Approaching Literature through Translation) Series, Katha, New Delhi, 2000 (Critical Essays and Autobiographical Pieces on Ismat Chughtai.)
- Mapping Memories Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Muhammad Ali Siddiqui. Katha, New Delhi, 1998
(Urdu stories from India and Pakistan translated into English. The same collection of stories in the original Urdu was published as Bazdeed by Katha, New Delhi, 1998
- Breakthrough Selected and Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, 1993
Modern Hindi and Urdu short stories (Translated into English)
= Translated =
= Poems =
- Seven Leaves, One Autumn Rajkamal Publications, New Delhi, 2011
- Poems Come Home (Bilingual, Translated by Gulzar) HarperCollins, New Delhi, 2011
- Rowing Together Rajkamal Publications, New Delhi, 2008
- Without Margins Bibliophile South Asia, New Delhi, 2005
- Folds of Silence Kokil, New Delhi, 1996
- Apurna Writer's Workshop, Calcutta, 1988
- Oscillations Ashajanak Publishers, New Delhi, 1974
= Included in the following poetry Anthologies =
References
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External links
- [https://penguin.co.in/book_author/ed-sukrita-paul-kumar-and-malashri-lal/ Sukrita Paul Kumar] at Penguin India
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Category:21st-century Indian women writers
Category:English-language poets from India
Category:International Writing Program alumni
Category:21st-century Indian translators
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)