अशोक पांडे / Ashok Pande
Born 29 November, 1966. Poet, painter and translator. A collection of poetry Dekhta hoon Sapne published in 1992. Translated Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate into Hindi. Has written books on Yehuda Amichai and Fernando Pessoa. Many travel-pieces and translations from world-poetry have appeared in Pahal. His translations of Shamsher Bahadur Singh’s poems published in 2002 as Broken and Scattered, and Viren Dangwal’s poems, It’s Been Long Since I Found Anything, in 2004. Other translations include: the novel Lust for Life, Dharati Jaanti Hai (Yehuda Amichai’s poems), Ekaakipan ke Bees Arab Prakashvarsh (Shuntaro Tanikawa’s poems) and selected poems and prose by Fernando Pessoa.