S.
Diwakar
is a well known poet, fiction writer,
essayist and literary critic in Kannada.
Author of over 15 books, Diwakar is also
an accomplished translator having introduced
to Kannada readers short stories and novels
of several Nobel Prize-winning writers. He
has won many prestigious awards for his
work including the Karnataka Sahitya Academy
Award, the Rjotsava Award from the government
of Karnataka, the Katha Award for creative
fiction, and the Dr. Shivarama Karanth
Award. He has been given a Senior Fellowship
by the Department of Culture, Government
of India. Recently he participated in
the International Writing Program at the
University of Iowa, USA. At present he
works as an editor at the American Consulate
in Chennai.
Christopher
Merrill's books
include four collections of poetry, Brilliant
Water, Workbook, Fevers & Tides, and
Watch Fire, for which he received
the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award
from the Academy of American Poets, and
three books of nonfiction, The Grass
of Another Country: A Journey Through
the World of Soccer, The Old Bridge: The
Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee,
and Only the Nails Remain: Scenes
from the Balkan Wars. His work has
been translated into ten languages. He
has held the William H. Jenks Chair in
Contemporary Letters at the College of
the Holy Cross, and now directs the International
Writing Program at The University of Iowa.
