ഇരുട്ടിലെ പാട്ടുകള്‍: ഇന്ത്യന്‍ വര്‍ത്തമാനങ്ങള്‍ | Interview with K Satchidanandan by Anwar Ali

"ഇരുട്ടിലെ പാട്ടുകള്‍: ഇന്ത്യന്‍ വര്‍ത്തമാനങ്ങള്‍"

Interview with K Satchidanandan by Anwar Ali at KLF 2023

About Speakers ↓:

K Satchidanandan: K Satchidanandan, is an award winning, bilingual, poet, editor, literary columnist, and translator. He is perhaps the most widely translated of contemporary Indian poets, and has 23 collections of his poetry published in several Indian and foreign languages. In addition to poetry, he published several books of travel, plays and criticism and translations of poetry from around the world. He is a Fellow of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, and won many literary awards, including the National Akademi award, the World Poetry Peace Prize from the UAE, the India-Poland Friendship Medal, and the Dante Medal from Ravenna. He received a Knighthood from the Government of Italy and was in the Ladbroke final shortlist of Nobel Prize for Literature probables in 2011.

Anwar Ali: Anwar Ali is a poet, lyricist and translator. Mazhakkalam, his first collection of poetry, received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi`s Kanakasree Award in 2000, and Mehaboob Express received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi`s Poetry Award in 2021. He translated several poems and Tetsuko Kuroyanagi`s literary classic Totto-Chan into Malayalam. He writes film lyrics and was awarded the Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyricist in 2020. Ali`s documentary, Maruvili (Call from the Shore), is based on the life and poetry of veteran poet Attoor Ravivarma. He also received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Screenplay in 2003.

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