Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist, translator, and independent curator. His collections of poetry include Central Time (Penguin, 2014), Jonahwhale (Penguin, 2018; in the UK, by Arc, as The Atlas of Lost Beliefs, 2020, which received a prestigious Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Hunchprose (Penguin, 2021), and Icelight (Wesleyan University Press & Penguin, 2023). He is the author of the acclaimed translation of a 14th-century Kashmiri woman mystic’s work, I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011) and, more recently, of the poetry of the great 18th-century Urdu poet, Mir Taqi Mir, The Homeland’s an Ocean (Penguin Classics, 2024). He is also the editor of the annotated critical edition, Dom Moraes: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics, 2012).

Hoskote has been a Fellow of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa (1995) and writer-in-residence at Villa Waldberta, Munich (2003) and the Polish Institute, Berlin (2010), as well as researcher-in-residence at BAK/ basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2010 and 2013). In 2023, he was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Murty Classical Library of India, published by Harvard University Press. Hoskote has been honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award, the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize, the S H Raza Award for Literature, and the 7th JLF-Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry. He co-curated the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008) and was the curator, in 2011, of India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale.