What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State
Aruni Kashyap Finds Defiance and Potential in Tradition of the Testimonio
September 20, 2021
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Aruni Kashyap
Aruni Kashyap writes in two languages: English and his native language Assamese. He is the author of three books of fiction His Father’s Disease: Stories (2019); and the novels: The House With a Thousand Stories (2013), and Noikhon Etia Duroit (2020). A winner of the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh, his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News (2021) was a finalist for the 2018 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and 2018 Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Catapult, Bitch Media, The Boston Review, Electric Literature, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from Northeast, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The Guardian UK, and others. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, Athens, and an Editor-at-large with the Southern Review of Books.
