WILLIAMSJI MAVELI WRITES ON AUTHOR PANKHURI SINHA

Pankhuri Sinha is a bilingual writer. Her first award is for her Hindi poetry “Ek naya maun, ek naya udghosh’ for which she received the Prestigious Girija Kumar Mathur award in 1995, while studying in BA  Honours part II, in Indraprastha College, Delhi University. Her first two books are collections of stories published in 2006 and 2008, with Gyanpith, a very prestigious name in Hindi publishing. She then, went on to publish two collections of Poems in English, Prison Talkies in 2013 and Dear Suzannah in 2014, both with Xlibris, Indiana. Since then, she has published five collections of poems in Hindi, Raktim Sandhiyan, Bahas Paar ki Lambi Dhoop, Pratyancha, Geetil Raatein and most recently,Osil Subahein. She has also received numerous prestigious awards in between---Chitra Kumar Shailesh Matiyani Samman in 2007 for her first story collection koi-bhi-din, Rajeev Gandhi Excellence Award in 2013 for outstanding achievements in writing by Seemapuri Times, First Prize for poetry by Rajasthan Patrika in 2017, Pratilipi Kavita Award, Mathura Prasad Gunjan Smriti Award and many other prestigious awards. She is a student and teacher of Modern British History, currently teaching in a government college in Bihar, India. She did her Master’s in History from SUNY Buffalo in 2007. She has an incomplete Phd from University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, which she plans to finish in the near future. She received the Dean’s entrance fellowship at the time of her admission in the Phd programme in 2008 in the University of Calgary. Her poems have been translated in several Indian languages like Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Bodo,  and languages abroad like German, French, Spanish, Serbian, Nepali, Turkish, Czech, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Hebrew and Romanian. These poems have also been published in magazines of these languages. She herself has translated Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Italian and Turkish poets. She also translated stories by Ramnika Gupta from Hindi to English, and the interview of reputed Indian theatre personality Ratan Thiyam by Udayan Vajpai from Hindi to English. She is also a freelance journalist and has interviewed several top politicians and writers like Shashi Tharoor, Mahesh Sharma, Mark Tully, the German dancer Anne Dietrich, Professor and critic Dr Margaret Koves, Prof Istvan Voros, and many other writers and academicians. Her poems are being published in several international journals and anthologies. The Munir Mezyad Foundation for arts and culture has awarded her for her service to poetry and culture. Her short story has recently been recognized and awarded in the correspondence competition in Chekhov Literature Festival in Yalta, Crimea. She is working on several collections of poems and stories in Hindi and English, and just starting her first novel. She is a member of the World Nations Writers Union and of the senate of the World Union of Poets. She has recently been awarded an honourary doctorate by the world peace diplomatic ambassador Admiral Ebhoria Charles, founder of Dynamic Peace Rescue Mission International, Nigeria, and Organization of peace and world humanity.
Pankhuri Sinha is a bilingual writer. Her first award is for her Hindi poetry “Ek naya maun, ek naya udghosh’ for which she received the Prestigious Girija Kumar Mathur award in 1995, while studying in BA  Honours part II, in Indraprastha College, Delhi University. Her first two books are collections of stories published in 2006 and 2008, with Gyanpith, a very prestigious name in Hindi publishing. She then, went on to publish two collections of Poems in English, Prison Talkies in 2013 and Dear Suzannah in 2014, both with Xlibris, Indiana. Since then, she has published five collections of poems in Hindi, Raktim Sandhiyan, Bahas Paar ki Lambi Dhoop, Pratyancha, Geetil Raatein and most recently,Osil Subahein. She has also received numerous prestigious awards in between---Chitra Kumar Shailesh Matiyani Samman in 2007 for her first story collection koi-bhi-din, Rajeev Gandhi Excellence Award in 2013 for outstanding achievements in writing by Seemapuri Times, First Prize for poetry by Rajasthan Patrika in 2017, Pratilipi Kavita Award, Mathura Prasad Gunjan Smriti Award and many other prestigious awards. She is a student and teacher of Modern British History, currently teaching in a government college in Bihar, India. She did her Master’s in History from SUNY Buffalo in 2007. She has an incomplete Phd from University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, which she plans to finish in the near future. She received the Dean’s entrance fellowship at the time of her admission in the Phd programme in 2008 in the University of Calgary. Her poems have been translated in several Indian languages like Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Bodo,  and languages abroad like German, French, Spanish, Serbian, Nepali, Turkish, Czech, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Hebrew and Romanian. These poems have also been published in magazines of these languages. She herself has translated Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Italian and Turkish poets. She also translated stories by Ramnika Gupta from Hindi to English, and the interview of reputed Indian theatre personality Ratan Thiyam by Udayan Vajpai from Hindi to English. She is also a freelance journalist and has interviewed several top politicians and writers like Shashi Tharoor, Mahesh Sharma, Mark Tully, the German dancer Anne Dietrich, Professor and critic Dr Margaret Koves, Prof Istvan Voros, and many other writers and academicians. Her poems are being published in several international journals and anthologies. The Munir Mezyad Foundation for arts and culture has awarded her for her service to poetry and culture. Her short story has recently been recognized and awarded in the correspondence competition in Chekhov Literature Festival in Yalta, Crimea. She is working on several collections of poems and stories in Hindi and English, and just starting her first novel. She is a member of the World Nations Writers Union and of the senate of the World Union of Poets. She has recently been awarded an honourary doctorate by the world peace diplomatic ambassador Admiral Ebhoria Charles, founder of Dynamic Peace Rescue Mission International, Nigeria, and Organization of peace and world humanity.