Bio
Nirupama Dutt is Chandigarh’s homegrown poet, journalist, literary and art critic, translator and raconteur of many seasons who has written and edited several books. She writes in both Punjabi and English. She received the Punjabi Akademi Award for her anthology of poems, ‘Ik Nadi Sanwali Jahi’. Her poetry anthologies have also come out in English and Hindi. Her translations include Stories of the Soil (translation of 41 stories from Punjabi, published by Penguin) Poet of the Revolution (translation of the memoirs and poetry of Lal Singh Dil published by Penguin). She has written the biography of a Dalit activist and singer called TheBallad of Bant Singh. Books edited by her include Our Voices, an anthology of SAARC poetry, and Half the Sky and Children of the Night, two collections of Pakistani short stories. At present she is translating three novellas by Amrita Pritam and translating an anthology of poems by Gulzar.