Arya Gopiis a bilingual poet and translator writing in English and Malayalam, with eleven published books including One Hundred Lines of Discords and Sob of Strings. She has received over fifty national and international literary honors, including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Kanakasree Award. A performer, scholar, and recipient of the 2025 Poetic Frequencies Residency from the UNESCO City of Literature in Heidelberg, Germany, her work appears widely in journals and anthologies. She serves on the Malayalam Mission’s executive committee and heads the Research and PG Department of English at the Zamorin’s Guruvayurappan College, University of Calicut, Kerala.
Artwork by Arya Gopi / Courtesy of the artist
The first word I ever spoke was not recorded in any baby book, captured on video, or celebrated with fanfare. It emerged, as all first words do, from t…
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