Bio
Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist, translator and curator. His collections of poetry include Central Time (Penguin, 2014), Jonahwhale (Penguin, 2018, published in the UK by Arc as The Atlas of Lost Beliefs, 2020, which received a prestigious
Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Hunchprose (Penguin, 2021), and Icelight (Wesleyan University Press in the USA & Penguin in India, 2023). Hoskote’s translation of a 14 th -century Kashmiri woman mystic’s poetry has appeared as the acclaimed I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011).