Geet Chaturvedi

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Geet Chaturvedi is one of the most widely read authors in contemporary Hindi literature. He has authored twelve books, including Simsim, which, in Anita Gopalan’s translation, won a PEN/Heim Translation grant and was longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023, India’s richest literary award. His works have been translated into twenty-four languages.

The Master of Unfinished Things by Geet Chaturvedi

Geet Chaturvedi
Penguin Books. 2025. 208 pages.“The concept of apurnata (incompleteness) cannot be understood without recognizing the significance of ‘a.’ . . . In…
We Count Humans by the Dead

June 24, 2025 Geet Chaturvedi
Photo by Narin Sapaisarn / Adobe Stock The city is a bad wind,the suburbs, nauseating heat waves,and the streets, breath wheezed out of fevered lungs.People swarm like microbes.Their numbercalculat…
Two Poems from the Hindi

October 4, 2016 Geet Chaturvedi
The translation of The Diamond Sutra by Kumārajīva of the Yao Ch’in dynasty, in a handwritten version by Zhang Jizhi of the Southern Song Dynasty in 1253. Kumārajīva had established…