Anamika (poet)

Anamika (poet) Biography

Anamika is a prominent contemporary woman writer in Hindi and she is also a critic. She writes both poems and novels and many of her works have been translated to many languages including Malayalam, Russian, Norwegian, Japanese, Korean, English, Bangla, Oriya and Punjabi, thus both Indian and foreign languages. She is better known as an established poet and essayist. She has won several national awards for her collections of poems, essays, and fiction. Anamika is currently a faculty in English literature at Satyawati College, University of Delhi. She has published eight collections of poetry.

She was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar in the year 1961. Her father Shyamnandan Kishore was a Hindi poet, and it was her father who introduced her to the world of poetry since young. She completed her studies from Patna and Delhi and also took a PhD. She has been a lonely child during her childhood and she made friendship with books at a very young age. Her father had a huge collection of books, which Anamika used to read. She also carefully listened to others’ talks and pains including classmates, relatives and neighbours which later gave her subjects to write poems. She closely observed the works of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Marge Piercy, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.

She is often referred to as a feminist translator. Her published poem collections include - Galat Pate ki Chithi, Beejakshar, Anushtup, Doob-Dhaan and Khurduri Hatheliyan. Das dvaare ka Peenjara and Tinka Tinke Paas are her novels while Nagamandal, Afro-English Poems and Kahti hai Auratein are her translation works. She has also done works on criticism - Post-Eliot Poetry and Streetva ka Manchitra.

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Updated: December 11, 2015