About the Book Misplaced Objects and Other Poems features 85 poems by K. Satchidanandan selected by the poet himself from his Sahitya Akademi Award winning collection as well as others written between 1973 and 2014 and provides an insight into the evolution of the poet over a period of four decades. This authentic selection translated by the poet himself carries some of his most well-known works such as 'Granny', 'Fever', 'Disquiet', 'Stammer', 'The Mad', 'Gandhi and Poetry', 'Self, 'A Man with a Door', 'Cactus', 'Translating Poetry', 'Snail' and 'Old Women'. The translations reflect the range of the poet's concerns as well as the variety of the forms and poetic devices employed by him. Many of these have appeared in anthologies like Two Plus Two (Mylbaris, Switzerland), Contemporary Indian Poetry (Bloodaxe, London), Indian Love Poems (Everyman, London), Language for a New Century (WW Norton, New York) and Oxford Book of Modern Indian Poetry (Oxford) besides several important journals.
About the Author K. Satchidanandan (b.1946), widely acknowledged as a pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, is the author of 22 collections/selections of poetry in Malayalam, 7 in English including While I Write (Harper: Collins) besides several collections of poems in translation in Indian and foreign languages. Many of his poems have been published in Russian, Chinese, Croatian, Latvian, etc. He is also a translator of world poetry and a critic of standing. He has represented India in several international book fairs and festivals including the ones at Berlin, Frankfurt, Rome, London, Paris, Moscow, Beijing and Sharjah.
K. Satchidanandan won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection of poems Marannu VechaVastukkal (Misplaced Objects) in 2011. He is also the recipient of the Gangadhar Meher National Award, Kusumagraj National Award, Kuvempu National Award, NTR National Award, Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award besides the Asan Award, Vayalar Award, Kamala (Das) Surayya Award, and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (5 times) and four awards from UAE. He is a Fellow of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and has been honoured with Knighthood by the Government of Italy and won the Indo-Polish Friendship Medal from the Government of Poland.
**Contents and Sample Pages**
