PEN@Prithvi + Kshitij: International Poetry Festival

PEN@Prithvi & Kshitij Prakashan Sanshodhan Kendra

invite you to

TWO EVENINGS OF INTERNATIONAL POETRY

on Sunday: 7 February & Monday: 8 February 2010

at

Prithvi House
Opp. Prithvi Theatre, 1st Floor,
Janki Kutir, Juhu, Mumbai 400 049

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- SUNDAY, 7 February 2010
6:30 p.m.
(Poets: Peter Waugh, Maria Elena Blanco, and Enrique Moya)

- MONDAY, 8 February 2010
6:30 p.m.
(Poets: Victoria Slavusky, Dieter Berdel, and Hanane Aad)

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Peter Waugh, (Austria/ English) Born in Barnet, 1956, Waugh’s poetry has appeared in anthologies and magazines in England, USA, Austria, Slovakia, Macedonia and Croatia.

Dieter Berdel (Austria/German) Born in 1939, Berdel has written poetry, short prose and visual poetry in both High German and Viennese dialect. He has published ten books.

Enrique Moya (Austrian-Venezuelan/English) Born in Caracas, 1958, Moya is a poet, fiction writer, literary translator, publisher, essayist, music and literary critic.

María Elena Blanco (Cuban/Spanish) Blanco is a poet, essayist and translator born in Havana, Cuba. She writes predominantly in her native Spanish.

Victoria Slavuski (Argentinian/Spanish) Slavuski is a poet, novelist and cultural journalist who lives in Europe. She has published a novel.

Hanane Aad (Lebanese/Arabic) Aad is a poet who combines contributions to print media, television and radio. She has published three collections of poetry.

KAMAL VORA
for Kshitij

RANJIT HOSKOTE
for PEN@Prithvi

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Inquiries: india.pen@gmail.com

Launch of Kalpish Ratna’s The Quarantine Papers

THE PEN ALL-INDIA CENTRE & RANGASWAR/CHAVAN CENTRE

invite you to a book reading from The Quarantine Papers

by KALPISH RATNA

The reading will be followed by an interactive session with the authors,
Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed

Date: 5 February 2010 (Friday)
Time: 6.00 pm
Place: Cultural Hall, 4th Floor, Chavan Centre
Nariman Point, Mumbai 400021

Please join us for tea at 5.30 pm.

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ALL ARE WELCOME: THIS MEETING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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The Quarantine Papers is a detective story set across two lifetimes. It brings into focus the great adventures in medical science that took place in Bombay at the turn of the 19th century. The setting is the historic Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Hospital which saw the discoveries and innovations that shaped the medicine of today. The plague epidemic of 1897 is chiefly remembered for the work of Waldemar Haffkine, but the many Indians who shared his discoveries have been long forgotten. This book celebrates these forgotten voices, placing them in their political and cultural milieu, authenticating their stories by drawing on archived documents.

Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed write together as Kalpish Ratna. Surgeons by profession, and writers by avocation, they write extensively on science, medicine, literature and the arts. Bombay University’s Grant Medical College is their alma mater. They believe that science has and deserves its true place in the arts. Swaminathan lives in Bombay. Syed divides his time between Bombay and Long Beach, Mississippi.

Ranjit Hoskote
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer
The PEN All-India Centre

Inquiries: india.pen@gmail.com

Kyla Pasha Reading, High Noon and the Body

THE PEN ALL-INDIA CENTRE & YODA PRESS

invite you to the launch of High Noon and the Body

a first book of poems by KYLA PASHA

Date: 4 February 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 6.15 pm
Place: Theosophy Hall (3rd floor)
40 New Marine Lines, Churchgate, Mumbai 400 020

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ALL ARE WELCOME: THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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High Noon and the Body (New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2010) is the first published collection of Pakistani feminist poet and journalist Kyla Pasha’s poems. Ranjit Hoskote writes, “Pasha’s poems move in several directions, unconstrained by doctrinaire notions of what a poem should do and be. She speaks to present, distant or departed interlocutors; meditates on how we lose and find ourselves again through travel; brings news of war to the front lawn, talks crisp commonsense to the robed spectres of Death and Memory.” Pasha, who was born in Islamabad in 1979, graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio, with a BA in history and creative writing, and received an MA in International Studies, with a focus on comparative religion, from the University of Washington, Seattle. She has been a contributing editor for GlobalComment since 2007, and in 2008, founded Chay Magazine, which she edits. She works as assistant professor of liberal arts at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. Pasha blogs at www.kylapasha.com.

Naresh Fernandes
Member, Executive Committee
The PEN All-India Centre

Inquiries: india.pen@gmail.com