We are happy to announce yet another exciting event coming up soon: The Book Launch of Sridala Swami's Escape Artist!
Where: Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad
When: November 11th 6:30 pm
Entry: Free - open to all
Photo by Greg Bal
Sridala Swami's Escape Artist, published by the Aleph
Book Company (2014), is the first book to appear under the aegis of the
Jehangir Sabavala Foundation (JSF). The Foundation was established to
promote the lifelong interest that the late Jehangir Sabavala
(1922-2011), one of India's most distinguished modernist artists, took
in the visual arts and in poetry. As part of its commitment to poetry,
JSF has undertaken to support the publication of one book of poems every
year, and is proud to inaugurate the series with Sridala Swami's new
collection. Escape Artist has been shortlisted for the inaugural
Khushwant Singh Poetry Prize (2014).
"Escape Artist" will be launched by Keki N. Daruwalla, Padma Shri and Sahitya Akademi award winner, poet and short story writer in English language.
About the Writer :
Sridala Swami is a poet, essayist and photographer. She was educated at
the Rishi Valley School, Lady Sriram College, Delhi, and the Film and
Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. Her first collection of
poems, A Reluctant Survivor (2007), was published by the Sahitya
Akademi/ National Academy of Letters. It was shortlisted for the Shakti
Bhatt First Book Award. Swami has written four books for children,
published by Pratham Books in 2009 and 2012. She was the 2011 Charles
Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and
was a Fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of
Iowa, 2013.
