NLS Archives | Poetry Night with R. Cheran, Poet, Playwright and Journalist

The NLS Law and Society Archives is organising an intimate poetry reading event with R. Cheran on ‘Poetry as Counter-Archives.’

About the Speaker

Dr. R. Cheran is a Tamil Canadian academic, poet, playwright and journalist. He is a professor at the University of Windsor in Canada. He has authored over fifteen books in Tamil, and his work has been translated into twenty languages and been widely anthologised. Several volumes of his work have been published in English translation including The Second Sunrise. Translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom. New Delhi: Navayana, 2010; You Cannot Turn Away. Translated by Chelva Kanaganayakam. Toronto: Mawenzi Publishers. 2011; In a Time of Burning. Translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom and Sascha Ebeling. Arc Publications, Todmorden: UK. 2013; Nirbajitha Kobita. Translated by Saubhik de Sircar in Bengali. 2018; Het verhaal van de Zea. Translated by Bhavani Thambirajah in Dutch. Assen: The Netherlands. 2018; Siembra Polo Palabras. Translated by Isabel Alonso Breto in Spanish. Barcelona: Navona Publishers. 2019; Kaatril ezuthal (Malayalam). Thiruvananthapuram: DC Books. 2020.

Related Works: Read R. Cheran’s well known poem ‘I Could Forget All This…‘ with commentary by noted translator Lakshmi Holmström.