Arvind Krishna Mehrotra



Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947 ) is a noted Indian poet, anthologist, literary critic and translator.

Biography
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore 1947. He has published four collections of poetry in English and one of translation (a volume of Prakrit love poems recently reissued in Penguin Classics). He has edited several books of translation and criticism, including An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English (2003). His Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992) is very influential. Presently, he is Head of the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Allahabad, Allahabad. He teaches Twentieth Century English poetry and creative writing.

Mehrotra was nominated for the chair of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford in 2009.stood for this temporary academic position at the University of Oxford. He came second behind Ruth Padel, who later resigned over allegations of smearing Derek Walcott (who had himself earlier withdrawn from the election process). An active campaign to encourage his assumption of the position is being led by British author Toby Litt, and supported by Australian and Indian poets Bridget Khursheed and Shaik Zakeer Hussain and Neil Astley, the Editor of Bloodaxe Books. Mehrotra himself remains undecided.

Poetry Collections

 * Middle earth. Delhi: Oxford University Press (Three crowns books), 1984.
 * Nine enclosures. Bombay: Clearing House, 1976.
 * Distance in statute miles. Bombay: Clearing House, 1982.
 * The transfiguring places: poems. Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, 1998.

Edited

 * Mehrotra, A. K. (2003). History of Indian literature in English. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
 * Mehrotra, A. K. (1992). [http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~amit/books/mehrotra-1993-oxford-india-anthology.html The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian poets}. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992.
 * Weissbort, D., & Mehrotra, A.K. Periplus: poetry in translation. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.
 * The Last Bungalow: Writings on Allahabad. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2007.

Translated

 * Hāla, & Mehrotra, A.K. The Absent Traveller: Prākrit love poetry from the Gāthāsaptaśatī of Sātavāhana Hāla. Delhi: Distributed by Orient Longman, 1991.

Editor of Literary Magazines

 * Ezra. Allahabad, India: Ezra-Fakir Press, 1966. "A magazine of neo imagiste poetry." a
 * Fakir. Bombay.
 * Concrete poetry, Bombay