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Amarjit Chandan

Amarjit Chandan (1946, Nairobi) has published eight collections of poetry, eight volumes of selected poems on various themes, five books of essays in Punjabi and two bi-lingual collections Sonata for Four Hands prefaced by John Berger (2010) and The Parrot The Horse & The Man (2017).

His poetry has been published in Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Brazilian-Portuguese, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Marathi, Romanian, Slovenian, Telugu, Turkish and Urdu. He has edited and translated over thirty anthologies of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction by, among others, Brecht, Neruda, Ritsos, Hikmet, Vallejo, Cardenal and John Berger in Punjabi.

Chandan was one of the ten British poets selected by Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, for the National Poetry Day in 2001. He has participated in the Alderburgh, Ledbury, King’s Lynn, Winchester poetry festivals and Poetry Parnassus in London in 2012. He represented the Punjab/UK in the International Literary Festival, Didim, Turkey in July 2006, Ljubljana (Slovenia) international poetry festival in 2015, and Al-Marbed International Poetry Festival Basra Iraq in February 2017, Karachi Literary Festival in February 2018 and 6th Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Poetry Festival, Cork City, Ireland (Nov 22nd - 25th 2018). His poems have been variously anthologised and broadcast – notably in All That Mighty Heart: London Poems, Edited by Lisa Rus Spaar, University of Virginia Press, 2008.

His short poem carved in 40-foot long stone, both in Punjabi and its English version, is installed in a public square in Slough England. Award winning filmmaker Gurvinder Singh made a 45-min film on him titled Awãzãn (Voices) in 2017. He was Poet in Residence in the University of California at Santa Barbara (January-June 2014). He was a trustee of Modern Poetry in Translation (founded by Ted Hughes).

Chandan’s poems and lyrics have been put to music by Mrityanjay Awasthi, Arieb Azhar (Islamabad), Andreas Pitsillides, Ali Aftab Saeed (Beygairat Brigade Lahore), Shrikant Shriram, Madan Gopal Singh and Saira Altaf.

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  • Cover of: Phailasūphīāṃ

    First published in 1991 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Do kinare: Bartanvi Punjabi Kahanian [British Punjabi Short Stories]

    First published in 1983 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Indians in Britain

    First published in 1986 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: A Letter Reaches Late : رسالة تصل متأخرة

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  • Cover of: Sonata for Four Hands

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    First published in 2011 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1997 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Gopal Singh Chandan: A Short Biography & Memoirs

    First published in 2004 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Paintee: Chonviaan Kavitavaan [Selected Poems]

    First published in 2009 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2000 — 1 edition
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    First published in 1999 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2007 — 1 edition
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    First published in 2010 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Being Here: Ten Poems & a Statement

    First published in 1993 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Likhat Parhat

    First published in 2013 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Eh Kagad Nahin Hai: Ghadar Virasat dian Likhtan

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  • Cover of: Sachi Taksaal: ChonviãN Shabad Kavitãvãn [Selected Poems on Word]

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Subjects

East Indians, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Punjabi Poetry, Translations into English, Emigration and immigration, Hindi and English, Historical linguistics, History, Lalit Kaka Akademi, Literature, Love, MUSIC, Punajbi Painters, Punjabi, Punjabi Jujhar Kavita, Punjabi Militant Poetry, Punjabi Naxalite Poetry, Punjabi Poetry in English translation, Punjabis in Britain, Punjabis in England, Race relations, Social conditions, Urdu, history, sociology

Places

London, Nakodar, Nairobi, Berlin, Amritsar, Argentina, Assos, Barcelona, Bombay, Brixton, Didim, Great Britain, Gunachaur, 'Babey Nanak da Ghar', Amritsar Darbar Sahib, Art College Shimla, Astoria, Astoria Oregon, Athens, Ayodhia, Babri Masjid, Bawahalpur, Brighton, Brussels, Calcutta

People

John Berger, Ajmer Rode, Akram Varraich, Alla Rakha, Amarajīta Candana (1946-), Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), Bulleh Shah, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Leela Mukherjee, Lorca, Mohan Singh, Theo Angelopoulos, **Poems, Amarjit Chandan, Amin Mughal, Amir Khan., Aneel Amaru Chandan, Anjana, Arieb Azhar, Arjan Singh Tarangarh, Arjan Singh Trangarh, Asad Zaidi, Asif Khan Tanvir Bukhari, Attar Singh, Baba Deep Singh

Time

11th century till date, 1840-1986, 1913 (Ghadar party founded), 1929-1957, 1946 -, 1947 (Punjab partitioned), 1984 (anti-Sikh pogroms), 1991-1993, Indian state and Khalistani terrorirst phase 1980-1990, Post War Britain Life of Punjabi immigrants

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Alternative names

  • Amarajīta Candana
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