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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947[1]) is an Indianpoet,anthologist,literary critic andtranslator.
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born inLahore in 1947. He has published six collections ofpoetry in English and two oftranslation — a volume of Prakrit love poems,The Absent Traveller, recently reissued in Penguin Classics, andSongs of Kabir (NYRB Classics). HisOxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992) has been very influential. He has edited several books, includingHistory of Indian Literature in English (Columbia University Press, 2003) andCollected Poems in English by Arun Kolatkar (Bloodaxe Books, 2010). His collection of essaysPartial Recall: Essays on Literature and Literary History was published by Permanent Black in 2012. A second book of essays,Translating the Indian Past (Permanent Black), appeared in 2019.
Mehrotra was nominated for the post of Professor of Poetry at theUniversity of Oxford in 2009.[2] He came second behindRuth Padel, who later resigned over allegations of a smear campaign against Trinidadian poetDerek Walcott (who had himself earlier withdrawn from the election process).[3][4]
Mehrotra has translated more than 200 literary works from ancientPrakrit language, and fromHindi,Bengali andGujarati.[5]
Among the published works giving an analysis of his poetry are:
Bruce King, (1987, revised edition 2001) Modern Indian Poetry in English. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
He is interviewed in the following works:
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