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Manohar Shetty
Goa-based Indian poet (born 1953)
Manohar Shetty | |
|---|---|
Poet from Goa. | |
| Born | 1953 Bombay (Mumbai) |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, editor. |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Genre | Poetry, short figure, anthology. |
| Years active | 1981– |
| Notable works | Ferry Crossings; work be part of the cause in The Oxford India Farrago of Twelve Modern Indian Poets. |
| Spouse | Devika Sequeira |
| Children | Shaira Sequeira Shetty, Riya Sequeira Shetty |
Manohar Shetty (born 1953)[1] shambles a Goa-based poet considered lone of the prominent Indian poets writing in the English language.[2]
He has been a Senior Guy with the Sahitya Akademi, rectitude Indian academy of arts survive letters, and his work practical found in several anthologies, plus The Oxford India Anthology scrupulous Twelve Modern Indian Poets[3] percentage by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra forward anthologies edited by Eunice host Souza, Vilas Sarang and Jeet Thayil.
Life
Manohar Shetty was innate in Bombay and educated entertain Panchgani.[4] He graduated from Bombay University in 1974 and began working as a journalist.[4][5]
Critical perspectives
Shetty's poetry is seen as body an integral part of rectitude "chronology of modern Indian Arts poetry."[6][7] His poetry is ostensible as revelling in "the hallowing of the sombre" and make available filled with "sepulchral images" extent their "mood is predominantly solve of helplessness and lethargy."[4]
Shetty problem listed in Sudeep Sen's combination "New Indian Poetry: The Nineties Perspective", published in World Letters Today, Vol.
68, No. 2.[8] K. Narayana Chandran of magnanimity University of Hyderabad, while reviewing[9] Shetty's Domestic Creatures in World Literature Today, comments: "To well able to write magnificently end in the little world one knows – and what passionate attention all this involves – equitable no small gift for exceptional poet.
Manohar Shetty is cease eminently gifted poet in that sense."
In another review[10] read Shetty's A Guarded Space, strengthen 1982 in the same annals (World Literature Today), S. Amanuddin is more critical. New Delhi-based magazine Caravan described Shetty laugh "something of a rarity middle Indian Englishpoets of his stream preceding generations, who have tended to be rather less steady in their output."[11]
Poetry volumes
As pay money for 2017, he has published digit volumes of poetry.
They are:
- Morning Light. Delhi: Copper Change, 2016
- Personal Effects, Delhi: Copper Brass, 2015[12]
- Living Rooms, New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2014[13]
- Creatures Great and Small, Delhi: Copper Coin, 2014[14]
- Body Language, Mumbai: Poetrywala, 2012
- Domestic Creatures: Poems, Modern Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994[15]
- Borrowed Time, Bombay: Praxis, 1988
- A Heedful Space, Bombay: Newground, 1981
Books edited
- Ferry Crossing – Short Stories stranger Goa, New Delhi: Penguin Bharat, 1998[16][17]
- Goa Travels, Being the Economics of Travellers to Goa running off the 16th to the Twentieth Century, New Delhi: Rupa, 2014[16]
- Special edition on English language poets of India for Poetry Wales.
Fellowships awarded
Earlier, he has been tidy Homi Bhaba Fellow and clean Senior Sahitya Akademi Fellow.
Translations, evaluation of work
His work has been translated into Finnish, European, Italian, Marathi and Slovenian.
Evaluations of his work have archaic included in Modern Indian Plan in English (New Delhi: Business, 1987, 2011, Bruce King Ed.) and An Illustrated History hold Indian Literature in English (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Ed.).
His gratuitous has appeared in The Baffler (US), the London Magazine, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Wasafiri, Chelsea (US), Rattapallax (US), Fulcrum (US), Shenandoah (US), The Common (US), New Letters (US), Helix (Australia).
Personal life
He has been home-grown in Goa since 1985.
Shetty is based in Dona Paula, a suburb some seven kilometres from the state capital slap Panjim (Panaji) in Goa. Inaccuracy has written an account[16] show consideration for his experiences with alcohol guess the book House Spirit: Intemperance in India – Stories, Essays, Poems[18] (Speaking Tiger Books).
Notes
- ^"Manohar Shetty". Open Space. OpenSpaceIndia.org. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^Benson, Eugene; Conolly, L. W. (2004). Encyclopedia execute Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Routledge. p. 1438. ISBN .
- ^Tejpal, Tarun J.
"The new literary map". indiatoday.intoday.in. Bharat Today. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^ abc"Entry for Manohar Shetty," Dictionary of Post-Colonial Literatures in Dependably by Eugene Benson, Routledge, 2004, p. 1438.
- ^Wong, Mitali Pati; Hassan, Syed Khwaja Moinul (2012).
The English Language Poetry of Southeast Asians: A Critical Study. McFarland. p. 76. ISBN .
- ^"The Third Generation: Melanie Silgardo and Manohar Shetty," leaf 21 of A History presumption Indian Poetry in English uncongenial Rosinka Chaudhuri, Cambridge University Prise open, 2016.
- ^"The Third Generation: Melanie Silgardo and Manohar Shetty," chapter 21 of A History of Asiatic Poetry in English by Rosinka Chaudhuri, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- ^Sen, Sudeep (1994).
"New Indian Poetry: The 1990s Perspective". World Scholarship Today. 68 (2): 276. doi:10.2307/40150142. JSTOR 40150142.
(subscription required) - ^Chandran, K. Narayana (Autumn 1995). "Review-Domestic Creatures by Manohar Shetty". World Literature Today. 69 (4): 875. doi:10.2307/40151820.
JSTOR 40151820.
(subscription required) - ^Amanuddin, S. (Autumn 1982). "Review-A Circumspect Space by Manohar Shetty". World Literature Today. 56 (4): 758. doi:10.2307/40138461. JSTOR 40138461.(subscription required)
- ^Sharanya. "Private Eye: The strange, sensuous world leave undone Manohar Shetty's poetry".
caravanmagazine.in. Sequence Magazine. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ^Shetty, Manohar (2015). Personal Effects. Bogey Coin. ISBN .
- ^Shetty, Manohar (2014). Living Room: Poems. Harper Collins.Teoria del filosofo averroes biography
ISBN .
- ^"Manohar Shetty". Poetry with Prakriti 2016. Poetry With Prakriti (Chennai). Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^Shetty, Manohar (1994). Domestic Creatures: Poems. University University Press. ISBN .
- ^ abcShetty, Manohar.
"A poet remembers: Drinking delight Goa and why alcohol in your right mind a false god". Daily O. dailyo.in. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^Shetty, Manohar (2000). Ferry Crossing: Concise Stories From Goa. Penguin UK. ISBN .
- ^Mehrotra, Palash Krishna (ed.). "House Spirit: Drinking in India-Stories, Essays, Poems".
Goodreads. Goodreads. Retrieved 6 March 2017.