Awards

• Joint winner of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022 (India)
• Winner of The Wise Owl Literary Award 2025 (India)

Overview

Poetry, creative non-fiction and photographs weave feelings and ideas of isolation with larger global issues, politics, wars, and their consequent geopolitical/geological catastrophes. Joint winner of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022. It all started with a newsclip I stumbled upon almost 15 years ago, where the President of the Pacific island of Kiribati expressed his concern about his people becoming 'climate refugees', due to rising sea levels. Since then, it has been a gradual evolution of ideas and the recent pandemic accelerated my literary and artistic response to the climate conflicts. I see Anthropocene as part of a larger sociocultural force, of which the pandemic is one of many crises. However, the book is not a doomed vision of the post- human world but a plea for slowing down, positivity, and an urge to embrace 'hope, heed, heal – our song, in present tense'.""

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Reviews

Deftly tackling urgent issues of climate change and the pandemic by subtly juxtaposing the sciences and the arts, Sudeep Sen's Anthropocene is one of the most important books of 2021. --The Hindustan Times It is an effective zeitgeist of the current global crisis -- climate change and the pandemic, racism, and Fascism, ultimately ending on a note of hope and humanity. This book -- written in an urgent, intelligent, lyrical style -- is a literary tour de force. --Times of India A mighty, ambitious work -- and it couldn't be more timely. There is a bounty of riches here, the mixed genres working harmoniously together as they enhance the overall argument. The voice carefully steps away from didacticism or rhetoric, finding beauty and grace in its journey across the pages. --Lavinia Singer, poetry editor, Faber & Faber Lo, Anais Nin + Henry Miller! #India. Sudeep Sen. --Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) on EroText Sudeep Sen's poems are a present which bring -- like all true poetry -- so much companionship. --John Berger I was really happy to lose myself in the learned and intricate mosaic of prose-poems... . Your book really stayed with me -- for its evocation of rain, for its love of Japan, for its commitment to the writing life and for its freshness. --Pico Iyer on EroText Gathers more than three decades of poetry from one of India's most technically gifted poets working in English. Sen's poetic scope and knowledge of form and metre will dazzle poetry lovers while drawing in more casual admirers with his sophistication of language and range of topics. Fractals is an important retrospective collection from a poet even now just reaching the height of his powers' - World Literature Today (USA) on Fractals

Author Information

Translated into 25 languages, Sudeep Sen’s own works include Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems, Fractals: New & Selected Poems (Global Literary Festival Award for 'Literary Excellence & Best Book of the Year' 2017; Rabindranath Tagore Literature Prize shortlist 2020); Rain ('Best Books of the Year', The Statesman), Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award 2009, 'Best Books of the Year', Outlook magazine), and Kaifi Azmi: Poems | Nazms (Bloomsbury 2019). Influential anthologies edited by him include The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, World English Poetry, and Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians, and his work has appeared in TLS, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer, and The Telegraph, and Newsweek, and been broadcast on the BBC, PBS, CNN, IBN, NDTV, All India Radio and Doordarshan.Sen is the only Asian who has been honoured by being asked to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture and to read at the Nobel Laureate Festival (in 2013). www.sudeepsen.org

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