Anamika

Professor Anamika teaches literatures in English at the University of Delhi. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the reception of John Donne across the ages. She has published extensively in the fields of Translation Studies and Gender Justice. In addition to eight volumes of criticism, she has authored seven well-received novels in Hindi. Three of her novels—'Dus Dware ka Peenjara', 'Aienasaz', and 'Trin Dhari Oat'—have received national awards and have been adapted into major stage productions. In 2020, she was awarded The Sahitya Akademi Award for her poetry collection 'Tokri Mein Digant'. Poems from her other collections—'Anushtup', 'Khurduri Hatheliyan', 'Doob-Dhan', 'Pani Ko Sab Yaad Tha', 'Band Raston Ka Safar', among others—are prescribed at various universities and have been translated into languages such as Malayalam, Marathi, Bangla, Punjabi, Oriya, Kannada, Korean, Russian, and English. An avid translator herself, she is also the founder editor of the bilingual journal 'Pashyantee'. Her essays on womanist discourse in Hindi have been translated into several languages, and she herself has translated the works of Rilke, Neruda, Doris Lessing, Octavio Paz, and many fellow women poets. Her major English publications include 'Transplanting British Poetry in Indian Classrooms', 'Donne Criticism Down the Ages', 'Post-War Women Poets: Treatment of Love and Death', 'Feminist Poetics: Where Kingfishers Catch Fire', 'Translating Racial Memory', and 'Weaving a Nation: Proto-Feminist Writing in Hindi and Urdu'.