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).
