Anamika (poet)

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| occupation = Poet, Writer
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| education = [[Master of Arts|MA]] in [[English literature]], [[PhD]], [[DLit]]
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| notableworks = Galat Pate Ki Chitthi, Bijakshar
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'''Anamika''' (born 17 August 1961) is a prominent contemporary Indian poet, social worker and novelist<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sen|first1=Sudeep|title=Salt|url=http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2010/november/salt-anamika#.VADZ_NKSyos|work=World Literature Today|date=November 2010|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903152044/http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2010/november/salt-anamika#.VADZ_NKSyos|archivedate=3 September 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> writing in [[Hindi]], and a critic writing in English.<br />

She has eight collections of poetry, five novels and four works of criticism in her credit. Currently, she is Reader at the Department of English, Satyawati College, [[University of Delhi]].
Recently, she was awarded prestigious Sahitya Academy Award ,being first ever women recipient. Early Rastra Kavi Sri Ramdhari Singh Dinkar was the recipient of this award.

== Early life and education ==

Anamika was born on 17 August 1961 in [[Muzaffarpur]], [[Bihar]]. Her father Shyamnandan Kishore was a Hindi poet and her "first teacher in poetry". Anamika describes herself as a very lonely child who led a very isolated life in a huge household. Her only companions were the books from her father's library. She says reading these books, living a life of imagination and listening to her "aunts, classmates, other women, women in distress," their stories and their pain shaped her understanding of women, whose socially-constructed femininity she learnt to [[Deconstruction|deconstruct]] and question after studying the work of poets like [[Sylvia Plath]], [[Anne Sexton]], [[Marge Piercy]], [[Toni Morrison]] and [[Alice Walker]].<br />

Anamika studied at the Universities of Bihar, Muzaffarpur, Lucknow and Delhi. Her PhD thesis was on "[[John Donne|Donne]] Criticism through the Ages" and her post-doctoral research on "The Treatment of Love and Death in Post-war American Women Poets". Her current topic of research as a fellow at [[Teen Murti Bhawan]], Delhi is "A Comparative Study of Women in Contemporary British and Hindi poetry".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Subramaniam|first1=Arundhati|title=Poetry and the 'Good Girl Syndrome'|url=http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/cou_article/item/6770|work=Poetry International Rotterdam|date=1 June 2006|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903113433/http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/cou_article/item/6770|archivedate=3 September 2014|df=dmy-all|access-date=29 August 2014}}</ref>

== Selected works ==

'''Poetry'''
# ''Galat Pate ki Chithi''
# ''Beejakshar''
# ''Anushtup''
# ''Doob-Dhaan''
# ''Khurduri Hatheliyan''
# ''Tokari Me Digant''
'''Novels'''
# ''Das dvaare ka Peenjara''
# ''Tinka Tinke Paas''
# ''Billu Shakespeare - Post Bastar''
# ''Ainasaaz''
# ''Awantar Katha''
# ''Lalten Bazar''
# ''Mann Krishna: Mann Arjun''

'''Criticism'''
# ''Post-Eliot Poetry''
# ''Streetva ka Manchitra''

'''Translations'''
# ''Nagamandal''
# ''Afro-English Poems''
# ''Kahti hai Auratein''

== Awards ==
* 2020 - [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Hindi|Sahitya Akademi Award]] for her poetry ''Tokri Mein Digant 'Their Gatha': 2014''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2021/mar/12/veerappa-moily-poet-anamika-among-20-to-be-conferred-sahitya-akademi-awards-2275798.html|title=Veerappa Moily, poet Anamika among 20 to be conferred Sahitya Akademi Awards|work=The New Indian Express|date=13 March 2021}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [http://www.geeta-kavita.com/indian_poetry_list.asp?author=Anamika Four poems in Hindi]
* [http://www.shabdankan.com/2014/08/poems-of-anamika.html#.VADNx9KSyos Hindi Poems, some with English translations]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140903063741/http://www.foundationsaarcwriters.com/literature/saarc-writers-intellectual/poets/india/167-anamika-india Women]
* [http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2010/november/salt-anamika#.VACqftKSyos Salt]
* [http://kavitakosh.org/kk/अनामिका Kavitakosh]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9BuDmKpmpo&t=86s Shakhsiyat ]
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[[Category:Indian women poets]]
[[Category:Poets from Bihar]]
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[[Category:Indian women novelists]]
[[Category:Indian women short story writers]]
[[Category:Indian feminists]]
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[[Category:People from Muzaffarpur]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian women writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian short story writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian novelists]]
[[Category:Women writers from Bihar]]
[[Category:Novelists from Bihar]]

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