Akhil Katyal
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 26 June 2018.
- ^ Katyal, Akhil. "Delhi Queer Pride: Ten short poems by a city-based queer poet to mark a decade of pride". Scroll.in. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ "'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. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ VagaBomb (20 October 2016). "A Poet for the Millennials: Akhil Katyal on Resistance, Desire, and Everything in Between". VagaBomb. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ "You too violate 377: Akhil Katyal's poem lays bare India's hypocrisy". dailyo.in. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ "Extract: Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems by Akhil Katyal". hindustantimes.com. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- ^ "Akhil KATYAL | The International Writing Program". iwp.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ "A City Happens in Love (Ishq Mein Shahar Hona)". speakingtigerbooks.com. Speaking Tiger Books. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ^ "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 12 July 2020.
- ^ "Delhiwale: Meet the Jangpura Extension poet". hindustantimes.com/. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2018.