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Ranjit Hoskote

Visiting Faculty of Creative Writing, Ashoka University

MA (English & Aesthetics)

Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist, translator and curator based in Mumbai, India. His seven collections of poetry include Vanishing Acts (Penguin, 2006), Central Time (Penguin, 2014), Jonahwhale (Penguin, 2018, published in the UK by Arc as The Atlas of Lost Beliefs, 2020, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation), and Hunchprose (Penguin, 2021). His translation of a 14th-century Kashmiri woman mystic’s poetry has appeared as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011). He is the editor of Dom Moraes: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics, 2012). With Ilija Trojanow, Hoskote wrote a study of transcultural connections in history, Kampfabsage (Blessing, 2007; in English as Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West, Yoda, 2012).

Hoskote curated India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale as Everyone Agrees, It’s About to Explode (2011) and was co-curator of the 7th Gwangju Biennale. He has curated more than 50 exhibitions of Indian and global art since 1994. These include retrospectives and deep-focus introspectives of major artists such as Atul Dodiya (Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo 2001, and National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi 2013), Jehangir Sabavala (National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai 2005 and New Delhi 2006), M F Husain (Mathaf Museum of Modern Art, Doha 2019), and F N Souza (CSMVS Museum, Mumbai 2022).

  • Zones of Assault (Rupa & Co., 1991)
  • Pilgrim, Exile, Sorcerer: The Painterly Evolution of Jehangir Sabavala (Eminence Designs, 1998)
  • The Cartographer’s Apprentice (Pundole Art Gallery, 2000)
  • The Sleepwalker’s Archive (Single Line, 2001)
  • The Complicit Observer: The Art of Sudhir Patwardhan (Sakshi/ Eminence Designs, 2004)
  • The Crucible of Painting: The Art of Jehangir Sabavala (NGMA/ Eminence Designs, 2005)
  • Baiju Parthan: A User’s Manual (Afterimage, 2006)
  • Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems, 1985-2005 (Penguin, 2006)
  • Kampfabsage (with Ilija Trojanow; Blessing Verlag, 2007)
  • Zinny & Maidagan: Compartment/ Das Abteil (Walther König, 2010)
  • I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011)
  • Dom Moraes: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics, 2012)
  • Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West (with Ilija Trojanow; Yoda, 2012)
  • Atul Dodiya (Prestel, 2014)
  • Central Time (Penguin, 2014)
  • Future Publics (The Rest Can and Should Be Done by the People) (co-edited with Maria Hjlavajova; BAK/ Valiz, 2015)
  • Jonahwhale (Penguin, 2018) In the UK as The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (Arc, 2020)
  • Hunchprose (Penguin, 2021)
  • Icelight (forthcoming: Wesleyan University Press, Spring 2023)
  • Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award
  • Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation
  • Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry
  • Sanskriti Award for Literature
  • S H Raza Award for Literature

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