Anamika (born 17 August 1961) is a contemporary Indian poet, social worker and novelist writing in

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

, and a critic writing in English. ''My Typewriter Is My Piano'' is her collection of poems translated into English. She is known for her feminist poetry.

Early life and education

Anamika was born on 17 August 1961 in

Muzaffarpur Muzaffarpur () is a city located in Muzaffarpur district in the Tirhut region of the Indian state of Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Tirhut division, the Muzaffarpur district and the Muzaffarpur Railway District. It is the fourth m ...

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

. Her current topic of research as a fellow at Teen Murti Bhawan, Delhi is "A Comparative Study of Women in Contemporary British and Hindi poetry". She is currently teaching English Literature at a college affiliated to the

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...

Works

Poetry collection

*Tokri mein Digant *Anushtup *Doob-dhaan *Khurdari Hatheliyaan *Paani ko Sab Yaad thaa

Awards

* 2020 -

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

for her poetry ''Tokri Mein Digant 'Their Gatha': 2014'' She is the first and only female poet to have won the prize in the award's 65-year history.

References

External links

Four poems in Hindi

Women

Salt

Kavitakosh

Shakhsiyat
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anamika 1961 births Living people Indian women poets Poets from Bihar Indian women novelists Indian women short story writers Indian feminists People from Muzaffarpur 20th-century Indian poets 20th-century Indian women writers 20th-century Indian short story writers 20th-century Indian novelists Women writers from Bihar Novelists from Bihar Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi Jibanananda Das Award