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==See also==
{{portal|Poetry}}
* [[Indian English Literature]]
* [[Indian Writing in English]]


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Shiv K. Kumar is Indian poet , playwright, novelist, short story writer .

Early life and education

Shiv K Kumar was born in Lahore in 1921, and was educated at Dayanand Anglo-Vedic High School and Forman Christian College, Lahore and Fitzwilliam College , Cambridge.

Career

Shiv K. Kumar has taught English literature at Osmania University and the University of Hyderabad, besides being a Visiting Professor at various British and American universities. In 1978, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ( London ) [1] during his stay in England as Commonwealth Visiting Professor of English at the University of Kent at Canterbury . He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1987 for his collection of poems Trapfalls in the Sky .

He lives in Hyderabad and is married to Madhu: they have two children.[2]

Works

His published works include:

collections of poetry :

  • Articulate Silences published by Writers Workshop in 1970
  • Cobwebs in the Sun by Tata McGraw-Hill in 1974
  • Subterfuges by Oxford University Press 1976
  • Woodpeckers by Sidgwick & Jackson 1976
  • Trapfalls in the Sky by MacMillian in 1986.
  • Woolgathering by Orient Longman in 1998
  • Thus Spake the Buddha in 2002

a play:

  • The Last Wedding Anniversary in 1975

novels and short stories:

  • A River with Three Banks (1998)
  • Nude Before God
  • To Nun with Love
  • Two Mirrors at the Ashram
  • The Bone’s Prayer in 1979
  • Infatuation-The Crescent and the Vermilion (2000)

poetry translation :

  • Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Selected Poems (Urdu to English)
  • The Best of Faiz

References

  1. ^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  2. ^ "Love across religious divide". The Hindu. Retrieved 8 August 2010.

See also

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