George John Kingsnorth | Let's Talk - Sudeep Sen, poet, writer and photographer Pt1 @GeorgeJohnKingsnorth | Uploaded July 2018 | Updated October 2024, 5 minutes ago.
In this 1st episode of seven, Sudeep Sen, poet, writer and photographer talks about he was influenced by literature, art, and theatre growing up. Initially, led towards architecture but found he was more interested in the arts. Science also plays a bit part of his life. He sees himself as a post-partition child being born after India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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Sudeep Sen [www.sudeepsen.net] is widely recognised as a major new generation voice in world literature and ‘one of the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene’ (BBC Radio), ‘fascinated not just by language but the possibilities of language’ (Scotland on Sunday). He received a Pleiades Honour (at the Struga Poetry Festival, Macedonia) for having made “a significant contribution to contemporary world poetry”. Sen’s prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies, Rain, Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award), Ladakh, The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor), Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1980-2015, and EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House). Blue Nude: New Poems & Ekphrasis (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Prize) is forthcoming.
His poetry and prose, translated into twenty-five languages, have featured in major international anthologies; and his words have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Telegraph, Herald, Harvard Review, Hindu, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Outlook, India Today, and broadcast on bbc, pbs, cnn ibn, ndtv, air & Doordarshan. Sen’s newer work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta), Language for a New Century (Norton), Leela (Collins), Indian Love Poems (Knopf/Random House/Everyman), Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe), and Initiate: Oxford New Writing (Blackwell). He is the editorial director of aark arts and the editor of Atlas.
As a photographer and graphic artist, his work is part of many professional print portfolios, magazine and newspaper pieces, book jacket covers, private and public collections some include: Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, New Indian Express, Swagat, Gallerie, Biblio, Prairie Schooner, Molossus, World Literature Today, Indian Design & Interiors, and others; plus books covers for publishers such as HarperCollins, Peepal Tree, Mulfran, Wings Press, Women Unlimited, Gallerie, Aark Arts, UPL, Bengal Gallery, and many others. He has also published two books of photography, Prayer Flag and Postcards from Bangladesh. His photography is professionally represented by ArtMbassy in Berlin [artmbassy.com/kuenstler/sudeep_sen.pdf].
Sen was the first Asian to be honoured with an invitation to participate at the Nobel Laureate Week in St Lucia, where he delivered the Derek Walcott Lecture and read his own poetry. A special commemorative limited edition, Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1980-2015, was released by the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott himself. The same year, the Government of India Ministry of Culture’s awarded him the senior fellowship for “outstanding persons in the field of literature/culture”.
Selected important links:
Nobel Laureate Festival
thehindu.com/news/national/sudeep-sen-to-address-nobel-laureate-week/article4185443.ece
London Magazine Edition
thelondonmagazine.org/tag/sudeep-sen
Jaipur Literature Festival
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tIAigwTR1JI
The Poetry Foundation / Poetry Chicago (USA)
poetryfoundation.org/bio/sudeep-sen
British Council Contemporary Writers (UK)
literature.britishcouncil.org/sudeep-sen
The Best American Poetry (USA) interview
blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2013/02/interview-with-sudeep-sen-in-new-delhi-by-catherine-woodard.html
World Literature Today (USA) interview
http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/11_2010/sudeep.html
Europalia Festival (Belgium)
http://www.europalia.eu/en/article/sudeep-sen_362.html
Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 available at
paperwall.in/books/57/Fractals:-New-&-Selected-Poems-&-Translations
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Please watch: "(31) Let's Talk: Haiku "
youtube.com/watch?v=Jrgcp7Ruqco
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In this 1st episode of seven, Sudeep Sen, poet, writer and photographer talks about he was influenced by literature, art, and theatre growing up. Initially, led towards architecture but found he was more interested in the arts. Science also plays a bit part of his life. He sees himself as a post-partition child being born after India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
_______________________________________________________________
This video was produced by Gullion Media Ltd: gullionmedia.com
Please support us on Patreon: patreon.com/geofilm
_______________________________________________________________
Sudeep Sen [www.sudeepsen.net] is widely recognised as a major new generation voice in world literature and ‘one of the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene’ (BBC Radio), ‘fascinated not just by language but the possibilities of language’ (Scotland on Sunday). He received a Pleiades Honour (at the Struga Poetry Festival, Macedonia) for having made “a significant contribution to contemporary world poetry”. Sen’s prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies, Rain, Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award), Ladakh, The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor), Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1980-2015, and EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House). Blue Nude: New Poems & Ekphrasis (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Prize) is forthcoming.
His poetry and prose, translated into twenty-five languages, have featured in major international anthologies; and his words have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Telegraph, Herald, Harvard Review, Hindu, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Outlook, India Today, and broadcast on bbc, pbs, cnn ibn, ndtv, air & Doordarshan. Sen’s newer work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta), Language for a New Century (Norton), Leela (Collins), Indian Love Poems (Knopf/Random House/Everyman), Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe), and Initiate: Oxford New Writing (Blackwell). He is the editorial director of aark arts and the editor of Atlas.
As a photographer and graphic artist, his work is part of many professional print portfolios, magazine and newspaper pieces, book jacket covers, private and public collections some include: Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, New Indian Express, Swagat, Gallerie, Biblio, Prairie Schooner, Molossus, World Literature Today, Indian Design & Interiors, and others; plus books covers for publishers such as HarperCollins, Peepal Tree, Mulfran, Wings Press, Women Unlimited, Gallerie, Aark Arts, UPL, Bengal Gallery, and many others. He has also published two books of photography, Prayer Flag and Postcards from Bangladesh. His photography is professionally represented by ArtMbassy in Berlin [artmbassy.com/kuenstler/sudeep_sen.pdf].
Sen was the first Asian to be honoured with an invitation to participate at the Nobel Laureate Week in St Lucia, where he delivered the Derek Walcott Lecture and read his own poetry. A special commemorative limited edition, Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1980-2015, was released by the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott himself. The same year, the Government of India Ministry of Culture’s awarded him the senior fellowship for “outstanding persons in the field of literature/culture”.
Selected important links:
Nobel Laureate Festival
thehindu.com/news/national/sudeep-sen-to-address-nobel-laureate-week/article4185443.ece
London Magazine Edition
thelondonmagazine.org/tag/sudeep-sen
Jaipur Literature Festival
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tIAigwTR1JI
The Poetry Foundation / Poetry Chicago (USA)
poetryfoundation.org/bio/sudeep-sen
British Council Contemporary Writers (UK)
literature.britishcouncil.org/sudeep-sen
The Best American Poetry (USA) interview
blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2013/02/interview-with-sudeep-sen-in-new-delhi-by-catherine-woodard.html
World Literature Today (USA) interview
http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/11_2010/sudeep.html
Europalia Festival (Belgium)
http://www.europalia.eu/en/article/sudeep-sen_362.html
Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 available at
paperwall.in/books/57/Fractals:-New-&-Selected-Poems-&-Translations
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Please watch: "(31) Let's Talk: Haiku "
youtube.com/watch?v=Jrgcp7Ruqco
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