Lal Ded

Lal Ded (Trans. Ranjit Hoskote)

Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote is an acclaimed poet, translator, cultural theorist and curator. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Jonahwhale (2018), Hunchprose (2021) and Icelight (2023). His translation of a fourteenth-century Kashmiri woman mystic’s poetry, I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (2011), was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award. Hoskote has received, among other honours, the S.H. Raza Award for Literature and the JLF-Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia Award for Poetry. He serves on the editorial board of the Murty Classical Library of India, which is published by the Harvard University Press.