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Visiting Writers


 

One of SCILET’s most important activities is to bring established Indian creative writers to visit our Centre and present readings of their work, followed by questions and discussion regarding what they have read.  Audiences for these programmes include personnel from Madurai area colleges and universities, along with students, faculty and alumni of American College and interested citizens of the Madurai community.  Major writers who have given such programmes at SCILET are listed below, along with the year(s) of their programme(s), their place(s) of residence and a few of their works that represent the various genres of creative writing in which they are active.

Meena Alexander                   1992, 1994
Residence: New York City, USA / Tiruvella, Kerala, India
 
  Poetry : Stone Roots; River and Bridge; Illiterate Heart; Raw Silk
  Novels : Manhattan Music; Nampally Road
  Memoirs : Fault Lines
  Reflections : The Shock of Experience
 
Romen Basu                           1994
Residence: New Delhi, India / New York City, USA
 
  Novels : The Tamarind Tree; My Own Witness; This Land Is Ours
  Short Stories : Rustling of Many Winds
  Poetry : Wings at a Distance; The Surrendered Self
 
Sujata Bhatt                             2000
Residence: Bremen, Germany
 
  Poetry : Brunizem; Monkey Shadows; Point No Point;
Augatora; A Colour for Solitude; The Stinking Rose
 
Keki Daruwalla                        2003
Residence: New Delhi, India
 
  Poetry : Winter Poems; Night River; The Map Maker; Under Orion;
The Keeper of the Dead; Landscapes; A Summer of Tigers
  Short Stories : The Minister for Permanent Unrest;
A House in Raniket
  Edition : Two Decades of Indian Poetry
 
Mahesh Dattani                      2004
Residence: Bangalore, India
 
  Stage Plays  : Seven Steps Around the Fire; Tara; Final Solutions;  On a Muggy Night in Mumbai
  Screen Plays : Dance Like a Man; Mango Sufflé; Morning Raga
  Radio Plays : Clearing the Rubble; Uma and the Fairy Queen
 
Kamala Das                             1988, 1993, 2003
Residence: Ernakulam, Kerala, India
 
  Poetry  : Summer in Calcutta; The Descendants; The Old Playhouse and
Other Poems
; Tonight This Savage Rite
  Short Stories  : A Doll for the Child Prostitute; The Sandal Trees
  Memoirs : A Childhood in Malabar
  Autobiography : My Story
       
 
Shashi Deshpande                 1995, 2004
Residence: Bangalore, India
 
  Novels : The Dark Holds No Terrors; That Long Silence;   A Matter of Time; Small Remedies; Moving On
  Short Stories : Collected Stories: Vols.1 and 2
  Essays : Writing from the Margin
  Children’s
Fiction
: The Narayanpur Incident
 
Manohar Devadoss                1997, 2002
Residence: Chennai, India
 
  Autobigraphical Novels : Green Well Years; A Poem to Courage
  Self-Illustrated Memoirs : Dreams, Seasons and Promises
 
Nissim Ezekiel                        1990
1924 - 2004
 
  Poetry : Hymns in Darkness; The Exact Name; Latter-Day Psalms
  Dramas : Nalini; The Sleepwalkers; Don’t Call It Suicide
  Essays : Naipaul’s India and Mine; How a Poem is Written;
To Revise or Not to Revise
       
 
Githa Hariharan                       2000
Residence: New Delhi, India
 
  Novels : The Thousand Faces of Night; When Dreams Travel;
In Times of Siege; The Ghosts of Vasu Master
  Short Stories : The Art of Dying and Other Stories
 
Ranjit Hoskote                         2004
Residence: Mumbai, India
 
  Poetry : Zones of Assault; The Cartographer’s Apprentice;
The Sleepwalker’s Archive; Vanishing Acts
  Edition : Reasons for Belonging
 
Shiv K. Kumar                         1992
Residence: Hyderabad, India
 
  Poetry  : Articulate Silences; Cobwebs in the Sun; Woodpeckers;  Trapfalls in the Sky; Genesis;
Woolgathering
  Novels : The Bone’s Prayer; A River With Three Banks; Two Mirrors at the Ashram
  Short Stories : Beyond Love and Other Stories
 
Jayanta Mahapatra                 1987, 1991
Residence: Cuttack, Orissa, India
 
  Poetry  : Life Signs; A Rain of Rites; Shadow Space; Relationship;
Dispossessed Nests; Bare Face; Burden of Waves and Fruit;
A Whiteness of Bone; Random Descent
  Short Stories : The Green Gardener and Other Stories
  Essays : Orissa
  Journal : Chandrabhaga
 
Anita Nair                                 2006
Residence: Bangalore, India
 
  Novels : Ladies Coupé; The Better Man; Mistress
  Short Stories : Satyr of the Subway
  Poetry : Malabar Mind
  Edition : Where the Rain is Born
  Children’s
Fiction
: Adventures of Nanu, the Skating Squirrel
 
Suniti Namjoshi                       2000
Residence: Devon, England
 
  Fables   Saint Suniti and the DragonFeminist Fables;
The Blue Donkey Fables
  Poetry : The Jackass and the Lady; The Authentic Lie
  Children’s
Fiction
: Aditi and the One-Eyed Monkey
 
Manjula Padmanabhan            2006
Residence: New Delhi, India
 
  Novel : Getting There
  Drama : Harvest
  Short Stories : Hot Death, Cold Soup; Kleptomania
  Cartoon Books : This is Suki; Double Talk
 
K. Ayyappa Paniker                 1985, 1996
1930 - 2006
 
  Poetry : Days and Nights; I Can’t Help Blossoming
  Essays : Indian Narratology
  Editions : Medieval Indian Literature in English Translation;
Complete Works of Shakespeare in Malayalam Translation
 
Gieve Patel                             2001
Residence: Mumbai, India
 
  Poetry : Mirrored, Mirroring; How Do You Withstand, Body?
  Drama : Mister Behram; Savaksa
 
Saleem Peeradina                   2003, 2006
Residence: Saline, Michigan, USA
 
  Poetry : First Offence; Group Portrait; Meditations on Desire
  Memoirs : The Ocean in My Yard
  Edition : Contemporary Indian Poetry in English
 
Arundhati Subramaniam         2002
Residence: Mumbai, India
 
  Poetry  : On Cleaning Bookshelves;   Where I Live
  Edition : Confronting Love

 

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