Vihang A. Naik
Auteur de City Times
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Vihang A. Naik : Indian Poet . Photo credit Varun Patel ( Ahmedabad , Gujarat ) February , 2016.
Œuvres de Vihang A. Naik
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Vihang A. Naik
- Nom légal
- Naik, Vihang
- Autres noms
- Vihang Ashokbhai Naik
Vihang
Naik
V A. Naik - Date de naissance
- 1969-09-02
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- India
- Lieu de naissance
- Surat, Gujarat. India
- Lieux de résidence
- Surat, Gujarat. India
Baroda, Gujarat. India
Ahmedabad, Gujarat. India
Prantij, Gujarat. India
Ambaji, Gujarat. India - Études
- The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
- Professions
- teaching (college)
poet
translator - Prix et distinctions
- "Limca Book of Records ( Poetry, 2016 )", "Michel Madhusudan Prize ( 1998 )"
- Courte biographie
- Vihang A Naik was born in Surat, Gujarat on September 2, 1969. He is India’s contemporary poet writing in English. His poems have appeared in such literary journals as Indian P.E.N.,Indian Literature : A Sahitya Akademi Bi-Monthly Journal, Kavya Bharati, POESIS: A Journal of Poetry Circle, Mumbai, The Journal of The Poetry Society (India), The Journal of Indian Writing In English, The Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, The Poetry Chain among other significant journals. He is educated from The M.S. University of Baroda with Philosophy, Indian and English Literature.
Four collections of his poetry have been published: Poetry Manifesto: New & Selected Poems (2010), Making A Poem (2004), City Times and Other Poems (1993). His Gujarati collection of poems include Jeevangeet (Gujarati Poems) published by Navbharat Sahitya Mandir (Ahmedabad) in 2001, dedicated to the cause of victims of Gujarat Earthquake of January 26, 2001. He also translates poetry written in the Gujarati language into English, including his own Gujarati language poems.
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 8
- Popularité
- #1,038,911
- Évaluation
- 4.9
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 6
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1
Many small poetry collections and new or foreign poets have slipped by me in the past. Last night I was writing back a forth to a friend discussing authors and why people need to center around the same old writers. Why not something new and different? Here is something different and something that stands on its own against the best of the establish poets.
City Times and Other Poems is an unintimidating slim volume. The poet is from India, but there is no hint of this in the writing. Instead, the sparse words move off the page like electrons creating great images in the TV screen of our brains. To be honest, it is an incredible transformation of words to imagery and feeling. I am at a delightful loss of words to explain it or say more. It needs to be experienced. Simply said, “Read it. It’s like magic.”… (plus d'informations)