Sudesh Mishra
Sudesh Mishra | |
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| Awards | Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry |
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| Alma mater | Flinders University |
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| Institutions | Jawaharlal Nehru University University of the South Pacific |
Sudesh Mishra (born 1962)academic.
Career
Sudesh Mishra was born in Fiji into an
Ph.D. in English literature at Flinders University. He has published several volumes of poetry, the first of which, Rahu (means Rahu, the sun eclipse caused by the Asura in the Hindu mythology), received the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry in 1988. His writing commonly treats events in his home country, such as the 1987 coup
, from an ironic perspective.
In 2003, he received an Asialink Literature Residency at
campus.Bibliography
Poetry
- Rahu (1987)
- Tandava (Meanjin, 1992) ISBN 0-9592528-1-9
- Memoirs of a Reluctant Traveller (Wakefield, 1994) ISBN 1-86254-315-1
- Diaspora and the difficult art of dying (University of Otago, 2002) ISBN 1-877276-18-9
Criticism
- Preparing faces : modernism and Indian poetry in English (CRNLE, 1995) ISBN 0-7258-0578-1
- Diaspora Criticism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006)
- No Sign is an Island (2000)
References
- ^ a b "Sudesh Mishra". Poetry International. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
- ^ "'Poetry chose me'". Fiji Times. 10 April 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
- ^ "Mishra plans to appoint new director for Oceania Centre". Fiji Times. 26 February 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
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