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.

  • A nebula in deep space

    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…
  • The translation of The Diamond Sutra by Kumārajīva of the Yao Ch’in dynasty

    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…