Akhil Katyal is an Indian poet and LGBTQ rights activist.
Career
Katyal has published three books of poems - Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems, How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross and Night Charge Extra.[1][2][3][4][5][6] During Fall 2016, he was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa.[7] In 2018, he translated Ravish Kumar's book of Hindi poems Ishq Mein Shahar Hona as A City Happens in Love.[8] In 2020, he co-edited The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia.[9]
Katyal is from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and teaches creative writing at Ambedkar University Delhi.[10]
References
- ↑ A South Asian queer poetry anthology seeks to represent the community's everyday realities - Firstpost. firstpost.com. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ↑ Delhi Queer Pride: Ten short poems by a city-based queer poet to mark a decade of pride. Scroll.in. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ↑ ‘Delhi is capable of its moments of liberation’: Akhil Katyal on being a queer poet and his undying love for the Capital. The Indian Express(2018-01-29). Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ↑ A Poet for the Millennials: Akhil Katyal on Resistance, Desire, and Everything in Between. VagaBomb(2016-10-20). Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ↑ You too violate 377: Akhil Katyal's poem lays bare India's hypocrisy. dailyo.in. Retrieved 2018-06-26.
- ↑ Extract: Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems by Akhil Katyal. hindustantimes.com. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ↑ Akhil KATYAL | The International Writing Program. iwp.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ↑ A City Happens in Love (Ishq Mein Shahar Hona). speakingtigerbooks.com. Speaking Tiger Books. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
- ↑ Excerpt: The World That Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia Edited by Aditi Angiras and Akhil Katyal. hindustantimes.com. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
- ↑ Delhiwale: Meet the Jangpura Extension poet. hindustantimes.com/(2017-05-15). Retrieved 2018-06-26.