Ranjit Hoskote

Bio: Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, essayist and curator based in Bombay. “Icelight” (Wesleyan University Press, 2023) is his eighth collection. His translation of a celebrated 14th-century Kashmiri woman saint’s poetry has appeared as “I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded” (Penguin Classics, 2011). Hoskote has been a Fellow of the International Writing Program (IWP), University of Iowa; writer-in-residence at Villa Waldberta, Munich, Theater der Welt, Essen-Mülheim, and the Polish Institute, Berlin; and researcher-in-residence at BAK/ basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. His poems have been translated into German, Hindi, Bangla, Irish, Marathi, Swedish, Spanish, and Arabic. Hoskote curated India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011) and was co-curator, with Okwui Enwezor and Hyunjin Kim, of the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008). For many years Hoskote has been decoding his family’s linguistic legacy, and his Kashmiri ancestry, putting a spotlight on the complex unpredictability of the Indian writer’s habitat and multilingual heritage. “Icelight,” Hoskote’s eighth collection, is set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hope. “Icelight,” Ranjit Hoskote's eighth collection of poems, enacts the experience of standing at the edge—of a life, a landscape, a world assuming new contours or going up in flames. 

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