Sukrita Paul Kumar

Sukrita Paul Kumar is an Indian poet, critic, and academic. She has been the chief editor of Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Literary Traditions of India – a textbook prescribed by the University of Delhi for course use in its Honours B.A. programme.

Early life and background

Sukrita Paul Kumar was born in Nairobi, Kenya and emigrated to India when Kenya obtained its freedom from the British. She was educated at Zakir Husain College, Hindu College and Government College of Arts and Sciences, Marathwada University, India.

Career

As director of a UNESCO project on 'The Culture of Peace', she edited Mapping Memories - a volume of Urdu short stories from India and Pakistan.Funny part is, she does not know Urdu. Many of her poems, have emerged from her experience of working with homeless people, tsunami victims, and street children.

Fellowships/Awards/Grants

Sukrita Paul Kumar was awarded the Visitorship at Concordia University for the designing of a course on Indian Women and their Lives in 2009. The New Story: A study of Literary Modernism in Urdu and Hindi Short Fiction. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla with Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1990 Conversations on Modernism: Dialogues with Writers, Critics and Philosophers. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla with Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 1990 Man, Woman and Androgyny: A study of the Novels of Theodore Dreiser, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Indus Publishing Co. New Delhi, 1989

Edited

The Dying Sun: Stories by Joginder Paul Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar, HarperCollins, New Delhi, 2013 Chamba Achamba Co-Edited with Malashri Lal, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2012 Speaking for Myself Co-Edited with Malashri Lal, Penguin India, New Delhi, 2009 Crossing Over Co-Edited with Frank Stewart, University of Hawaii, Hawaii, 2009 Interpreting Home in South Asia Co-Edited with Malashri Lal, Pearson Longman's, New Delhi, 2007 Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Literary Traditions of India Chief Editor: Sukrita Paul Kumar, Macmillan India, New Delhi, 2006 (Textbook prescribed by Delhi University as Concurrent Course for B.A Honours.) Women's Studies in India: Contours of Change Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Malashri Lal, IIAS, Shimla, 2002. (Collection of Essays)

Ismat, Her Life Her Times Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Sadique. ALT (Approaching Literature through Translation) Series, Katha, New Delhi, 2000 (Critical Essays and Autobiographical Pieces on Ismat Chughtai.) Mapping Memories Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Muhammad Ali Siddiqui. Katha, New Delhi, 1998 (Urdu stories from India and Pakistan translated into English. The same collection of stories in the original Urdu was published as Bazdeed by Katha, New Delhi, 1998

Breakthrough Selected and Edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, 1993 Modern Hindi and Urdu short stories (Translated into English)

Translated

Stories of Joginder Paul Joginder Paul. National Book Trust, New Delhi, 2003 (Translation of Urdu stories into English.)

Sleepwalkers Joginder Paul. Katha, New Delhi, 2001 (A novel translated by Sunil Trivedi and Sukrita Paul Kumar.)

Poems

Seven Leaves, One Autumn Rajkamal Publications, New Delhi, 2011 Poems Come Home (Bilingual, Translated by Gulzar) HarperCollins, New Delhi, 2011 Rowing Together Rajkamal Publications, New Delhi, 2008 Without Margins Bibliophile South Asia, New Delhi, 2005 Folds of Silence Kokil, New Delhi, 1996 Apurna Writer's Workshop, Calcutta, 1988 Oscillations Ashajanak Publishers, New Delhi, 1974

Included in the following poetry Anthologies

Travelogue : The Grand Indian Express (2018) ed. by Dr. Ananad Kumar and published by Authorspress, New Delhi Converse : Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (2022) ed. by Sudeep Sen and published by Pippa Rann Books, London