With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

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Shukla, who was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award in 1999 and the Bhartiya Jnanpith in 2025, was admitted to All India ...

E very October, when the Nobel Prizes are announced, readers receive a gift: we are reminded that literature is vast—vaster than empires, to coin a phrase. Chances are, the laureate for literature ...

In his novels, poems and stories, Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla excelled at portraits of simple but emotionally complex ...

While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

On the canvas of Hindi poetry, Shukla will be known for his linguistic distinctiveness and emotional density. His writings expanded the creative horizon of Hindi poetry in an original way. Unconcerned ...

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals. You may not ...

It's not often that "thinking inside the box," is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision's 2025 international slam poetry competition.

Vinod Kumar Shukla, a towering figure in modern Hindi literature, has passed away at the age of 89. A Jnanpith Award laureate ...