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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian English poet and editor}}<br />
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| image = Sudeep Sen(centre) at the Odisha Literacy Festival 2012.jpg<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1964}}<br />
| occupation = Poet<br />
| genre = modernism<br />
| notableworks = New York Times; Monsoon<br />
| alma_mater = [[Hindu College, Delhi]]<br />
| awards = Kathak Literary Award<br />
}}<br />
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'''Sudeep Sen''' (born 1964) is an [[India]]n English [[poet]] and editor living in [[New Delhi]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2010/november/interview-sudeep-sen-ziaul-karim|title="An Interview with Sudeep Sen," Ziaul Karim|date=2012-02-13|work=World Literature Today|access-date=2018-09-12|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Early life ==<br />
He was educated at [[St. Columba's School, Delhi|St Columba's School]] in [[Delhi]] and received a degree in English literature from [[Hindu College, University of Delhi]]. He received a master's degree from the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] in [[New York City]]. Sen also received a master's degree in English and creative writing from [[Hollins University]], and was an international scholar at [[Davidson College]]. From 1992 to 1993 he was international poet-in-residence at the [[Scottish Poetry Library]] in [[Edinburgh]], and in 1995 he was a visiting scholar at [[Harvard University]].<ref name="Donnell2002">{{cite book|author=Kadija Sesay|chapter=Sen, Sudeep|editor-link=Alison Donnell|editor=Alison Donnell|title=Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VfdpdZ9DwH0C&pg=PA275|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-70025-7|page=275}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> In 1995 he set up a poetry publishing company, Aark Arts.<ref name="Donnell2002"/><br />
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== Works ==<br />
Sen's books include ''Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems,'' ''Rain'', ''Aria'', ''Postcards from Bangladesh,'' ''Fractals: New & Selected Poems'' | ''Translations 1980-2015'' and ''EroText.'' <ref name="ss">[http://www.sudeepsen.net/ home page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221043730/http://www.sudeepsen.net/ |date=2007-02-21 }} of Sudeep Sen's website, SudeepSen.com, retrieved December 15, 2008</ref>{{sps|certain=yes|date=September 2018}}<br />
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=== Poetry ===<br />
* ''Leaning Against the Lamp-Post'' (1983)<br />
* ''The Man in the Hut'' (1986)<br />
* ''The Lunar Visitations'' (1990)<br />
* ''Kali in Ottava Rima'' (1992)<br />
* ''Parallel'' (1993)<br />
* ''New York Times'' (1993)<br />
* ''South African Woodcut'' (1994)<br />
* ''Mount Vesuvius in Eight Frames'' (1994)<br />
* ''Dali's Twisted Hands'' (1995)<br />
* ''Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems'' (1997)<br />
* ''Retracing American Contours'' (1999)<br />
* ''A Blank Letter'' (2000)<br />
* ''Lines of Desire'' (2000)<br />
* ''Almanac'' (2000)<br />
* ''Perpetual Diary'' (2001)<br />
* ''Monsoon'' (2002)<br />
* ''Distracted Geography: An Archipelago of Intent'' (2003)<br />
* ''Prayer Flag'' (2003)<br />
* ''Rain'' (2005)<br />
* ''Heat'' (2009)<br />
* ''Winter'' Frances (2010)<br />
* ''Mediterraneo'' (2012)<br />
* ''Ladakh'' (2012)<br />
* ''Fractals: New & Selected Poems|Translations 1978-2013'' (2013)<br />
* ''Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015'' (2015)<br />
* ''Incarnat | Incarnadine'' (2017)<br />
* ''Path to Inspiration'' (2017) (with Setsuko Klossowska de Rola & Homa Arzhangi)<br />
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=== Prose ===<br />
* ''Postcards from Bangladesh'' (2002) (with Tanvir Fattah & Kelley Lynch)<br />
* ''BodyText: Dramatic Monologues in Motion'' (2009)<br />
* ''EroText'' (2016)<br />
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=== {{anchor|Translation}}Translations ===<br />
* ''In Another Tongue'' (2000)<br />
* ''Love & Other Poems'' (2001)<br />
* ''Spellbound & Other Poems'' (2003)<br />
* ''Love Poems'' (2005) <br />
* ''Aria'' (2009)<br />
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=== Editor, co-editor ===<br />
*1995 ''Wasafiri: Contemporary Writing from India, South Asia and the Diaspora''. University of London.<br />
*1996 ''Lines Review Twelve Modern Young Indian Poets''. Edinburgh: Lines Review.<br />
*1998 ''Index for Censorship'' (poems); ''Songs of Partition'' (portfolio). London: Index for Censorship<br />
*2001-18: ''Six Seasons Review''. Dhaka: University Press Limited & London: Aark Arts.<br />
*2001 Hayat Saif: ''Selected Poems''. Dhaka: Pathak Samabesh.<br />
*2001 ''The British Council Book of Emerging English Poets from Bangladesh''. Dhaka: The British Council.<br />
*2002 ''Dash: Four New German Writers''. Berlin: Humboldt University & London: Aark Arts.<br />
*2002 Shawkat Haider: ''A Day with Destiny''. Dhaka: Azeez.<br />
*2004 ''Midnight's Grandchildren: Post-Independence English Poetry from India''. Macedonia: Struga Poetry Evenings {{in lang|mk}}.<br />
*2005 ''Sestet: Six New Writers''. Berlin: Free University & London: Aark Arts.<br />
*2006 ''Biblio'' South Asian English Poetry (portfolio). New Delhi: Biblio.<br />
*2006–present ''Atlas: New Writing, Art & Image''. London, New York, New Delhi: Aark Arts.<br />
*2009 ''The Literary Review''. Indian Poetry. Fairleigh Dickinson University.<br />
*2010 ''World Literature Today: Writing from Modern India''. University of Oklahoma.<br />
*2011 ''Poetry Review'' Centrefold Portfolio of Indian Poetry. UK: Poetry Review.<br />
*2012 ''The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry''. HarperCollins.<br />
*2012 ''The Yellow Nib: Modern English Poetry by Indians''. Belfast: Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queens University.<br />
*2013: ''The Prairie Schooner Feast Anthology of Poetry by Indian Women''. University of Nebraska.<br />
*2015: ''World English Poetry''. Dhaka: Bengal Foundation.<br />
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== Awards ==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+<br />
!Year<br />
!Works<br />
!Awards<br />
|-<br />
|2018<br />
|''Postcards from Bangladesh''<br />
|UPL Excellence Award<ref>[https://www.thedailystar.net/city/the-university-press-limited-recognises-19-books-16-individuals-six-institutions-with-upl-excellence-awards-2018-1546261 UPL recognises 19 books, 16 individuals, six institutions]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|2017<br />
|''EroText''<br />
|Global Literary Festival Award for Literary Excellence<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theindiaobserver.com/erotext-is-an-avant-garde-experimental-book-sudeep-sen/|title="EroText is an avant-garde experimental book" – Sudeep Sen – The India Observer|website=theindiaobserver.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-09-09}}</ref><br />
|-<br />
|2017<br />
|''EroText''<br />
|Best Book of the Year<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.asianage.com/books/311217/bibliomania-biblioboom-best-books-of-2017.html|title=Bibliomania, Biblioboom: Best Books of 2017|date=2017-12-31|work=The Asian Age|access-date=2018-09-09}}</ref><br />
|-<br />
|2009<br />
|''Aria''<br />
|AK Ramanujan Translation Award<ref>[https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/TIaTuVIgjWGkEcimBbfumM/In-verse-proportion.html In Verse Proportion]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|2009<br />
|''Blue Nude''<br />
|Jorge Zalamea Poetry Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sudeep-sen|title=Sudeep Sen|date=2018-09-08|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|others=Poetry Foundation|access-date=2018-09-09}}</ref><br />
|-<br />
|2007<br />
|<br />
|Kathak Literary Award<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-11211|title=Sudeep Sen's powerful poetry wins accolades|date=2007-11-12|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-09-09|language=en}}</ref><br />
|-<br />
|2004<br />
|<br />
|Pleiades Honour{{cn|date=December 2020}}<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist|30em}}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite book |date=1996 |editor-last1=Dawes |editor-first1=K. |title=Sudeep Sen: a Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook |location=South Carolina |publisher=University of South Carolina }}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Panja |first=Shormishtha |date=2005 |chapter=Sen, Sudeep (1964-) |editor-last1=Benson |editor-first1=Eugene |editor-last2=Conolly |editor-first2=L. W. |title=Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English |location=London |publisher=Routledge |via=[[Credo Reference]]}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.sudeepsen.org Personal website]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110103011105/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth5694A6A40a1c11E78AviO1CF2D4D British Council profile]<br />
*[http://sounds.bl.uk/View.aspx?item=024M-C1340X0049XX-0000V0.xml Listen to Sudeep Sen reading his poetry] - a British Library recording, 1 November 2010.<br />
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