(Photo credit: Aneesha Dharwadker.)

Vinay Dharwadker was born in Pune in 1954, and educated at schools in Mumbai, Delhi, and Jaipur. He attended St Stephen’s College and Delhi University, earning his B.Sc. (1974) and M.Sc. (1974) degrees in physics. He began a parallel career as a poet and translator in the early 1970s, and moved to the United States in 1981. He received his Ph.D. in literature and South Asian studies from the University of Chicago in 1989, and is now a Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Sunday at the Lodi Gardens (poems, 1994); The Collected Poems of A. K. Ramanujan (co-editor, 1995); and The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan (general editor, 1999). Among his most influential works are The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry (co-edited with Ramanujan, 1994) and Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture (editor, 2001). He is a co-winner of the American Culture Association’s Ray and Pat Browne Award for the Best Reference Work in Popular Culture published in 2007, for Volume 6 of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture. He is also the winner of the 2007 Translation Prize given by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, for Kabir: The Weaver’s Songs (Penguin Classics).

Vinay Dharwadker at Pratilipi

1. Room Enough On Earth: Shrikant Verma (Translator)
2. The Language Of The Bullets: Dhoomil (Translator)
3. Caught Between Arguments And Raucous Laughter: Kunwar Narain (Translator)
4. An Argument About Horses: Kedarnath Singh (Translator)