- Amarjit Chandan
Amarjit Chandan is a major Punjabi novelist who was born in
Nairobi ,Kenya , and currently lives in London.After graduating from
Panjab University inIndia , he joined theMaoist Naxalite movement, and subsequently spent two years in solitary confinement. Later he worked for various Punjabi literary and political magazines, including theBombay -based Economic and Political Weekly before migrating toEngland in 1980, where he lives with his radio-broadcaster wife and two sons.He has published eight collections of poetry and two books of essays in Punjabi in the Gurmukhi script and two in the Persian script in Lahore and one in English translation titled Being Here.
He has edited many anthologies of world poetry and fiction, including two collections of so-called Punjabi, Hindi and English published in India and abroad. His poetry has been published in Greek, Turkish, Hungarian and Romanian and Indian languages. He has participated in many poetry readings in England, Hungary and at
Columbia University . He has translated work by, among others, Brecht, Neruda, Ritsos, Hikmet and Cardenal into Punjabi.He worked as a creative writer with the Punjab Drama Repertory Co., Chandigarh in the late 1970s and adapted Brecht's play The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Tagore's Mukatdhara in Punjabi. He was awarded Young Writer Fellowship by the Lalit Kala [Fine Arts] Akademi, India in 1980.
He is currently working on a Punjabi translation of
Miguel de Cervantes 'Don Quixote . His own works include Jarhan, Beejak, Chhanna, and Guthali. He is a regular contributor to apnaorg.com and Sanjh magazine.Recently a poem of his has been carved in Stone both in English and Punjabi in Oxford.Bibliography
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