Date & Time Programme For Registration Release of Ranjit Hoskote’s : Selected Poems - Penguin (2012) By Damodar Mauzo - Awardee novelist, short story & screenplay writer and columnist Friday Followed by conversation with Vivek Menezes , reading & 17 th August discussion. 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm OPEN TO ALL Ranjit Hoskote is a Contemporary Indian poet, art critic, cultural

theorist and independent curator. Ms. Teja Naik,

0832 2452805 to 10 Co-organised with: Goa Writers’ Group (Ext. 615)

Ranjit Hoskote in conversation with Sudhir Kakar Saturday about the book 18 th August ‘Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West’ 11:00 am to 12:30 pm by Ranjit Hoskote & Ilija Trojanow

Co-organised with: Goa Writers’ Group

About RANJIT HOSKOTE Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist and curator. His collections of poetry include Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985-2005 (Penguin, 2006) and Die Ankunft der Vögel (Carl Hanser Verlag, 2006). His translation of the 14 th -century Kashmiri mystic-poet Lal Ded has been published as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011). He is also the editor of Dom Moraes: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics, 2012), an annotated critical edition of the seminal Anglophone Indian poet. Hoskote’s poems have appeared in Akzente , Boulevard Magenta , Fulcrum , Green Integer Review , Iowa Review , Nthposition , Poetry Review (London), Wasafiri , and Wespennest , as well as in numerous anthologies, including The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, 2008) and Language for a New Century (W. W. Norton, 2008). With Ilija Trojanow, Hoskote has co-authored Kampfabsage , a critique of the ‘clash of civilisations’ thesis phrased from the viewpoint of global cultural confluence (Random House/ Blessing Verlag, 2007). This book has since appeared in English as Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West (Yoda Press, 2012). With , Hoskote has co-authored The Dialogues Series (Popular/ Foundation B&G, 2011), an unfolding programme of artist conversations. Hoskote has been a Fellow of the International Writing Program, (1995) and writer-in-residence at Villa Waldberta, Munich (2003), Theater der Welt, Essen/ Mülheim (2010) and the Polish Institute, Berlin (2010). Over 2010-2011, he was research scholar-in-residence at BAK/ Basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. Hoskote has been awarded the Sanskriti Award for Literature (1996), the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award for Literature (2004), and the S H Raza Award for Literature (2006). He won first prize in the / Poetry Society All- Poetry Competition (1997). For I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded , Hoskote won the first Muse India Translation Award (2012). Hoskote has curated more than 20 exhibitions of contemporary art, including the survey exhibition, ‘Aparanta: The Confluence of Contemporary Art in Goa’ (Goa Medical College, Panjim, 2007) and ‘Detour: Five Position Papers on the Republic’ (Chemould Prescott Road, 2009), as well as a mid-career survey of Atul Dodiya (‘Bombay: Labyrinth/ Laboratory’, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, 2001), a lifetime retrospective of (National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay & Delhi, 2005-2006), the 7th Gwangju Biennale (with and Hyunjin Kim, 2008), and the first India Pavilion at the 54th (2011).