Samartha Vashishtha
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Samartha Vashishtha (born 1983) is a young Indian poet writing in English and Hindi, his mothertongue. He has published two volumes of poems in English--Anhadnad, a collection of his childhood poems in 2000, and Shadows Don't Live in Walls in 2004. He won a Poetry Chain-Poetry Society (India) Annual Poetry Prize in 2003.
Samartha has also contributed to some prominent Indian literary magazines. His work in English has appeared in Chandrabhaga edited by Jayanta Mahapatra, Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literature, The Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, The Journal of the Poetry Society (India) and Poetry Chain.
His poems in Hindi have appeared in Pahal, an influential literary magazine brought out by Gyanaranjan from Jabalpur, and Vartaman Sahitya (Ghaziabad), besides other publications.
Samartha is also a co-translator (along with Shailendra Shail) of Soumitra Mohan's long Hindi poem, Luqman Ali into English. The translation was published in Chandrabhaga 14/2007.
