Ranjit Hoskote

Poet, translator, cultural theorist and curator. Author: Jonahwhale, Hunchprose, Icelight. Alumnus: The International Writing Program, University of Iowa.

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Nicoletta Pireddu: Interview with Ranjit Hoskote (Migrating Minds Vol. 4 Issue 1, Spring 2026)

1. Ranjit Hoskote: Social media

2. Books

The Homeland's an Ocean: Mir Taqi Mir (Penguin Classics, 2024)

To Break and To Branch: Six Essays on Gieve Patel (Seagull, 2024)

Ten Indian Classics (Harvard University Press/ Murty Classical Library of India, 2024)

Icelight (Penguin/ Hamish Hamilton, 2023)

Icelight (Wesleyan University Press, 2023)

Hunchprose (Penguin/ Hamish Hamilton, 2021)

Jonahwhale (Penguin/ Hamish Hamilton, 2018)

The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (Arc, 2020)

Central Time (Penguin/ Viking, 2014)

Vanishing Acts (Penguin, 2006)

Dom Moraes: Selected Poems (ed. Penguin Modern Classics, 2012)

I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (trans. and ed. Penguin Classics, 2011)

M F Husain: Horses of the Sun (Mathaf Museum/ Silvana Editoriale, 2020)

Atul Dodiya (Prestel, 2014)

Sudhir Patwardhan: The Complicit Observer (Popular, 2011)

Sudhir Patwardhan: The Crafting of Reality (Popular, 2010)

Pilgrim, Exile, Sorcerer: The Painterly Evolution of Jehangir Sabavala (Eminence, 1998)

3.Reviews of Ranjit Hoskote's Books

Uttaran Das Gupta: Review of Icelight (The Wire, 3 December 2023)

K Srilata: Review of Icelight (Frontline, 5 October 2023)

Siddharth Dasgupta: Review of Icelight (The Hindu, 1 September 2023)

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee: Review of Icelight (The Wire, 8 July 2023)

Ella A. Anthony: Review of Icelight (The Harvard Crimson, 21 March 2023)

Meena Kandasamy: Review of Hunchprose (The Hindu, 27 June 2021)

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee: Review of Hunchprose (The Wire, 13 June 2021)

J M Schreiber: Review of Jonahwhale (roughghosts.com, 20 December 2018)

Sumana Roy: Review of Jonahwhale (Mint/ Lounge, 23-24 March 2018)

4. Features on Ranjit Hoskote

Manik Sharma: ‘Ranjit Hoskote on his new book Jonahwhale, and influence of art, music on his poetry’ (Firstpost, 10 April 2018)

Suhit Kelkar: 'Ranjit Hoskote: Between the Sea and the Shore' (OPEN, 27 February 2018)

5. Interviews with Ranjit Hoskote

Suhit Kelkar: Interview with Ranjit Hoskote & Nancy Adajania (Moneycontrol.com, 15 August 2021)

Chintan Girish Modi: Interview with Ranjit Hoskote (Hindustan Times, 10 April 2021)

Rebecca Levi: Interview with Ranjit Hoskote (VOLUME Issue 3, 15 December 2020)

Sarabjeet Garcha: Interview with Ranjit Hoskote (Verseville Issue XXXI, December 2020)

Leeya Mehta: Interview with Ranjit Hoskote (Plume Poetry, Issue #109, September 2020)

Robert Wood: Interview with Ranjit Hoskote (Los Angeles Review of Books, 6 August 2019)

Souradeep Roy: Interview with Ranjit Hoskote (Guftugu, 29 June 2018)

6. Poems & Translations

Ranjit Hoskote: Four Poems in The Bombay Literary Magazine # 51 (April 2022)

Ranjit Hoskote: 'Ocean Park' in Plume Poetry # 126 (February 2022)

Ranjit Hoskote: Four Poems in The Green Integer Review No. 11 (Jan-Feb 2022)

Isha Upanishad, translated from the original Sanskrit (Poetry at Sangam, September 2021)

Translator's Note to the Isha Upanishad (Poetry at Sangam, September 2021)

'National Marble' (OPEN Magazine/ Freedom Issue, 13 August 2021)

Ranjit Hoskote: Two Poems (Wild Court, London, 22 June 2020)

Ranjit Hoskote: Five Poems from Jonahwhale (Scroll, 13 June 2018)

7. Readings & Lectures

Ranjit Hoskote & Forrest Gander: Reading (Green Apple Books, 9th Ave, San Francisco: 4th October 2023)

'Lost Countries: A CHEUSE SALON' (Busboys and Poets, Washington DC: 29 September 2023)

'Into the Hothouse' (Alan Cheuse International Writers Center: 27 September 2023)

51st Brooklyn Rail Radical Poetry Reading (8 September 2021)

'How Jesus Went Native' (Jehangir Sabavala Memorial Lecture 2020)

'The Challenge of Abstraction' (Gallery Espace, 27 November 2020)

'Landscapes and Languages' (Max Mueller Bhavan, Bombay, 28 November 2019)

'The Soloist Performs with an Orchestra of Events' (Tagore Lecture, Cornell University, 23 September 2016)

8. Recent Curated Exhibitions

Jane Borges: Review of F N Souza: The Power and the Glory, curated by Ranjit Hoskote

Uma Nair: Review of 'F N Souza: The Power and the Glory'

'Mehlli Gobhai: Epiphanies' (co-curated with Nancy Adajania; Chemould Prescott Road, Bombay, 2021)

'Don't Ask Me about Colour: Mehlli Gobhai, A Retrospective' (co-curated with Nancy Adajania; NGMA, Bombay, 2020)

'Opening Lines: Ebrahim Alkazi, Art Works 1948-1971' (Art Heritage, New Delhi, 2019)

'M F Husain: Horses of the Sun' (Mathaf Museum, Doha, 2019)

9. Essays & Articles

Ranjit Hoskote: 'BN Goswamy: Sage and Sensitivity' (OPEN, 24 November 2023)

Tribute to Vivan Sundaram (National Herald, 29 March 2023)

Ranjit Hoskote: 'The Perfect Duet' (OPEN, 3 June 2022)

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