Sawnet - Bookshelf - Anjum Hasan
Anjum Hasan is the Communications Editor at the India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore -- a unique NGO in India that is entirely devoted to supporting the arts. She edits the biannual IFA arts journal ArtsConnect. She has published poetry in several anthologies, and her first collection of poems, Street on the Hill was published by Central Sahitya Akademi in 2006. She is a regular contributor to the Hindu Literary Supplement, Outlook, the Deccan Herald, and many other journals and newspapers.
Her first novel, tentatively titled Lunatic in my Head, will be published by Zubaan-Penguin in late 2007.
- Writing available online
- Neighbourhood, a poem.
- Ajmer and me. An essay about growing up in Shillong and experiencing the rest of India as a teen and adult.
- A poetry of masks and games and laughter. Review of Rukmini Bhaya Nair's Yellow Hibiscus.
- The Quiet One. A travelogue about Finland. Outlook India.
- Culture club on trendy ethnic restaurants in Bangalore. Outlook India.
- Us vs Them. 'Freedom of Expression' was the theme of this year's late September book-fair in Gothenburg on Sweden's west coast, but it might as well have been Islam. Outlook India, Oct 2006.
- Shillong, Bob Dylan, and Cowboy boots. Third prize winning entry in Outlook Picador's Nonfiction contest, 2002.
- Newsclips
- The maps that connect. Interview in the Deccan Herald, Aug 2007.
Bibliography
- Street on the Hill
Central Sahitya Akademi, Delhi.
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- The spaces of memory. Review in the Hindu, Sep 2006.
South Asian Women authors
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