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Revision as of 04:51, 28 March 2011
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
- ^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
- ^ "Love across religious divide". The Hindu. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
External links
See also
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