
Barsali Bhattacharyya, Sidharth Sreekumar
Geet Chaturvedi is one of the most widely read contemporary Hindi writers. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the Raza fellowship for fiction writing, he was named among Ten Best Young Writers of India by the Indian Express. He won the 2021 Vatayan-UK Literary Award for his contribution to Hindi literature. His novel Simsim, translated into English by Anita Gopalan, won a PEN/Heim and was longlisted for JCB Prize for Literature. His works have been translated into twenty-four languages. Anita Gopalan is a translator of Hindi literature. Her translations include Geet Chaturvedi’s The Memory of Now (winner of the Anomalous Press Chapbook Reading Contest), Simsim (recipient of a PEN/Heim translation grant and longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature) and The Funeral (featured in the Best Literary Translations Anthology, guest-edited Jane Hirshfield).