Vinod Kumar Shukla (tr. A.k. Mehrotra)

VINOD KUMAR SHUKLA is a poet and novelist from Raipur, Chhattisgarh. In 1999, Shukla received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel, Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rehti Thi. In 2023, he was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. SARA RAI has translated The Golden Waist-Chain and Munshi Premchand's Kazaki and Other Marvellous Tales. Her memoir, Raw Umber, was published in January 2023. ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA is the translator of The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry, Songs of Kabir and Treasurer of Piggy Banks, a selection of Vinod Kumar Shukla's poems.