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13 - 17 December 2012
III Edition of Goa Arts and Literary Festival
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Abhay
Sardesai has been the Editor of ART India, the premier art magazine
of India, since November 2002. Under his editorship, the magazine
has developed a Culture Studies-oriented approach and has become
more inter-disciplinary in its theme-based explorations. He
has been a Visiting Faculty in Aesthetics at the Department
of English, University of Mumbai, and has also been the Chair
of Humanities, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture,
Mumbai. He teaches at the Smt. P. N. Doshi Women’s College
of Arts and also at various other institutions like Jnanapravaha
and TISS. He writes in English and translates from Marathi,
Konkani and Gujarati. An 
Amitav
Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh
and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and
is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In
An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome,
The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and Sea of Poppies, which
is the first volume of a projected series of novels, The Ibis
Trilogy. The Circle of Reason was awarded France’s Prix
Médicis in 1990, and The Shadow Lines won two presitigious
Indian prizes the same year, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the
Ananda Puraskar. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke
award for 1997 and The Glass Palace
Amitava
Kumar is the author of several works of non-fiction and a novel.
His latest book, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm
a Tiny Bomb, was described by the New York Times as a “perceptive
and soulful” meditation on “the cultural and human
repercussions” of the global war on terror. His novel,
Home Products, was a finalist for the VodafoneCrossword Prize.
Amitava Kumar is Professor of English on the Helen
Andy
Jackson's poetry explores embodiment, identity and difference.
He won the 2008 Arts ACT Rosemary Dobson award for Best Unpublished
Poem, and the Most Innovative Work award at the 2009 Overload
Poetry Festival for a poetry-puppetry collaborative performance.
He was an Emerging Writer in Residence at the Katharine Susannah
Prichard Writers Centre in Perth in 2010, and is currently the
Librarian for Australian Poetry.Andy Jackson's first full-length
collection of poems, Among the Regulars, was published by papertiger
media in 2010, and was Highly Commended in the Anne Elder Award
and Shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize. In late 2011,
he will be a literature resident through Asialink, with the
support of the Australia-India Council. At the University of
Madras, he will engage with the literary community, while writing
a suite of poems exploring the personal stories behind the medical
tourism industry. 
Anjum
Hasan is the author of the novels Neti, Neti (short-listed for
the Hindu Best Fiction Award; long-listed for the DSC Prize
for South Asian Literature and the Man Asian Literary Prize)
and Lunatic in my Head (short-listed for the Crossword Fiction
Award). She has also written the collection of poems, Street
on the Hill.
After
20 years of working in the fields of journalism, communications
and graphic design, Aniruddha Sen Gupta has returned to his
first love -- writing -- since he moved to Goa in 2006. So far,
he has authored a couple of books in a children's adventure
series, a graphic guidebook on environmental matters, and a
sprinkling of short stories in various anthologies. He is currently
working on a chronicle of his
Astri
Ghosh is an Indo-Norwegian journalist and translator who lives
and works in Goa.She has translated short stories by Qurratulain
Hyder in Tiggermunken og Andre Noveller, and songs from the
Adigranth to Norwegian in the anthology Sanger fra Adigranth.
She has also translated novels, short stories and poems from
Norwegian to Hindi. She is currently working on a book on jazz
musicians in India and has just coordinated the Jazz Utsav in
New Delhi.
Bhalchandra
Vanaji Nemade is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. Nemade
taught English, Marathi, and comparative literature at various
universities including the School of Oriental and African Studies
at London. He retired from Mumbai University's Gurudeo Tagore
Chair for comparative literature studies. In the 1960s, Nemade
edited Marathi magazine Vacha. He received a Sahitya Akademi
Award for year 1990 for his critical work Teeka Svayanwar. .Nemade
wrote his first novel Kosla in 1963. As a critique, Nemade proposed
that short stories are of a genre inferior to that of novels,
and that Marathi literature ought to try to be “native”.
He has also taken a position against Indians writing in English.
Nemade's latest novel, "Hindu - Jagnyachi Samrudh Adgal”
was published in 2010. Some of his works include: Novels- Hindu
- Jagnyachi Samrudh Adgal, Bidhar, Hool, Jarila and Jhool ,
all published by Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai; Poetry
collections- Melody, Dekhani published by Popular Prakashan
Pvt. Ltd.; Criticism- Teekaswayamvar, Sahityachi Bhasha, Tukaram,
The Influence of English on Marathi : A Sociolinguistic and
Stylistic Study and Indo-Anglian Writing. 
Bijoya
Sawian an autor born on November 15 1949 in Shillong, has done
her M.A( English) from Delhi University.Some of her Published
works include Translations from Khasi into English - 'The Teachings
of Elders'and ‘Khasi Myths Legends and Folktales’,
she has also written short stories like 'The Girl In A BlueJainsem’
'One Rainy Night', a Novel- "Shadow Men", and a Short
History of the Khasis of Meghalaya - ‘The Hynniew Trep'
, she is presently working on a collection of 9 short stories
revolving around life in Meghalaya, The Main Ceremonies of the
Hynniew Trep - Naming, Marriage and Death - the last rites.
Also working on a sequel to her novel - "Shadow Men"
and short stories based on her Dehra Dun experiences and observations.
Bilal
Tanweer has an MFA Writing (fiction) from Columbia University
and BSc in Social Sciences from Lahore University of Management
Sciences (LUMS). His translation of Urdu pulp fiction—The
House of Fear by Ibn-e-Safi—was published by Random
House India (2010). His other translated works have appeared
in Words Without Borders, The Annual of Urdu Studies, and
Duniyazad. His short fiction has appeared in Life’s
Too Short Literary Review: 
Chiki Sarkar is the publisher of Penguin Books India. She did
her secondary schooling at MHS, Kolkata and went on to eventually
do her BA in Oxford University. After graduation, she worked
for Bloomsbury Publishing for seven years in London before returning
to Delhi to head up the newly set up Random House India as their
first editor in chief. Her authors there included Jhumpa Lahiri,
Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Mohammed Hanif and Rujuta Diwekar.
Earlier this year, Chiki moved to Penguin Books India, the country’s
largest publishing house, to be their publisher. 
Cyril
Almeida is an assistant editor, columnist and reporter at large
at Dawn, Pakistan's leading English daily. His areas of interest
include national politics, security policy and regional affairs.
He is a Rhodes scholar (2004) and received a second BA in Jurisprudence
from Oxford University. He earned an undergraduate degree in
economics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences
in 2003.
Damodar
Mauzo is a short story writer, novelist, columnist and screenplay
writer and has been writing in Konkani for over three decades.
He has two novels, four collections of short stories and three
books for young adults to his credit. He won the Sahitya Akademi
Award for his novel Karmelin. This novel and his short stories
have been translated into many languages. He is the recipient
of Katha Award for Creative Fiction 1998, the Best Dialogues
Award at the Goa State Film Festival 1997, the Goa Kala Academy
Award and Konkani Bhasha Mandal Award. 
Deborah
Baker is the author of the biography In Extremis: The Life of
Laura Riding, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. In
2008 Penguin published her book A Blue Hand: The Beats in India,
a non-fiction narrative exploring the idea of India in the American
literary imagination. While a Fellow at the Cullman Center for
Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, she 
Desmond
L Kharmawphlang (b 1964) is a poet and folklorist. He has published
books of poetry and collections of theoretical essays on folkloristics
pertaining to North East India. He has represented the country
in numerous conferences outside the country notably in Switzerland,
the United kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, Norway, the
United States, Finland and Greece. He is on the
Eunice
de Souza (born 1940) is a contemporary Indian English language
poet, literary critic and novelist. Among her notable books
of poetry is Women in Dutch painting (1988). She studied English
literature with an MA from the Marquette University in Wisconsin,
and a PhD from the University of Mumbai. She taught English
at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, and was Head of the Department
until her recent retirement. She was involved in the well known
literary festival Ithaka organized at the college. She has also
been involved in theater, both as actress and director. She
began writing novels with Dangerlok in 2001. She has also written
four children's books. Her works include: Poetry: Fix (1979),
Women in Dutch Painting (1988), 
Fatima
Bhutto is a Pakistani poet and writer. She is granddaughter
of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the niece of former
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and daughter of Murtaza Bhutto.
She came to fame after the appearance of her first book, a collection
of poems, titled Whispers of the Desert.
Gulzar is best known in India as a lyricist for songs that form
an integral part of Bollywood. He began his career under the
directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His book Ravi
Paar has a narrative of Bimal Roy and the agony of creation.Gulzar
was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2004 for his contribution to
the arts and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002. He has won a
number of National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards. In 2009,
he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Jai
Ho" in the film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). On 31 January
2010, the same song won him a Grammy Award in the category of
Grammy Award for Best Song 
H.M.
Naqvi is the award-winning author of Home Boy. He was born in
1974 and spent his childhood between Karachi, Islamabad, Algiers
and New York. The eldest of three brothers, he spoke Urdu and
English at home and began writing at age six. He has worked
in the financial services industry, ran a slam venue, and taught
creative writing at Boston University. Ensconced in Karachi,
H.M. Naqvi is working on his second novel. 
Jai
Arjun Singh is a freelance writer and journalist based in
Delhi. He blogs at 
In
his own description of himself, Jerry Pinto is a poet. His
first book of poems Asylum (Allied Publishers) was released
in 2004. Some of these poems are to be found in Reasons for
Belonging; Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets edited by Ranjit
Hoskote. His poems are also to be found in Fulcrum Number
4; An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics (Fulcrum Poetry Press,
2005) edited by Jeet Thayl; in Atlas; New Writing (Crossword/Aark
Arts, 2006) edited by Sudeep Sen; and Ninety-nine Words (Panchabati
Publications, 2006) edited by Manu Dash.
Jonathan
Shainin is the senior editor at The Caravan. He was the founder
and editor of The Review, a widely acclaimed weekly supplement
to The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi, and previously worked
at the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. His own
writing has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, Salon and The
Paris Review. 
Kiran
Nagarkar is an Indian novelist, playwright, film and drama critic
and screenwriter both in Marathi and English, and is one of
the most significant writers of postcolonial India. Amongst
his most known works are Saat Sakkam Trechalis (Seven Sixes
Are Forty Three) (1974, Ravan and Eddie (1994), and the epic
novel, Cuckold (book) (1997) for which he was awarded the 2001
Sahitya Akademi Award in English by the Sahitya Akademi, India's
National Academy of Letters. Nagarkar is notable among Indian
writers for having written acclaimed novels in more than one
language.
Kjell
Eriksson, born 1953 in Uppsala,. Sweden, has written a dozen
novels and a documentary book, about agricultural workers in
Sweden. His books are translated into eleven languages, among
them "The princess of Burundi", awarded as the Best
Crime Novel in 2002 in Sweden, and "The Hand that Trembles",
partly set in Bangalore.
Kynpham
Sing Nongkynrih writes poems and short fiction in Khasi and
English. He has a total of 13 publications in Khasi. His collections
of poetry in English include Moments, The Sieve and The Yearning
of Seeds (HarperCollins). He is the author of Around the Hearth:
Khasi Legends (Penguin) and the co-editor of Dancing Earth:
An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India (Penguin). His
poetry has been widely published in national and international
journals, including The New Welsh Review (Cardiff); Planet:
The Welsh Internationalist (Aberystwyth, Wales); Karavan (Stockholm);
PEN 
Administrator.
Born 20.10.1965 Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, M.A. (English);
M. Phil, Car. Programme Officer, 2003-2007, Regional Secretary
2008-2009 and presently Deputy Secretary (Admn.) in Sahitya
Akademi, New Delhi. Actively associated with various national
institutions of literature and culture. Languages known English,
Hindi, Marathi and Telugu; visited China and Malaysia as the
co-ordinator of Indian Writers Delegation, 2006; Thailand &
China, 2010 and represented Sahitya Akademi in the General Assembly
meeting of Union Academique Internationale, Brussels, Belgium,
2011. Visited Canada as the coordinator of Indian Writers’
Delegation to take part in the Year of India 2011 in Canada.
Translated literary works from Marathi to English and English
to Telugu etc. Translated Children’s Dictionary from English
to Telugu for Star Publications. Had been Jury to Sanskriti
Award, Delhi and Examiner and Judge for Adult Education Competitions,
Govt. of India. Has organised a number of National/International
Seminars, Conferences and Poets’ Meets; Has been working
on significant projects like – Encyclopaedia of Indian
Poetics, Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Archives of Indian
Literature and National Bibliography of Indian Literature.