Dr Anamika honoured at JLF

Well known translator, poet, writer and critic Dr Anamika has been bestowed with the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award at JLF.

Dr Anamika has published eight collections of poetry, five stories and various criticisms. Embedded in feminism, her creations have inspired generations of readers and budding writers in Hindi and English. According to her, every world is a translation in itself.

She has translated works of many famous writers like Rabindranath Tagore, Lesmurry, Octavio Paz, etc. She has translated important works like Nag Mandal (Girish Karnad), Rilke ki Par (Contemporary English Poetry), Kehti Hain Auratein (Feminist Poems from World Literature). Dr Anamika has been honoured with awards like Bharat Bhushan Award, Girja Kumar Mathur Samman, SahityakarSamman, ParamparaSamman, KirdaarSamman etc.

She is a Delhi based academic and bilingual writer with more than twenty national and international publications to her credit. A trained classical dancer, her novels have a vast readership and her poems are translated into various languages.

Her works are prescribed at curricula at JNU, University of Cochi, and University of Moscow etc. Currently she is working as a professor of English in Delhi University Satyawati College. The award carries a monetary prize of one lakh rupees.