Poetry Reading - In Conversation : Poetics of Dislocation
Author of six volumes of poetry including, Illiterate Heart (which won the PEN Open Book Award), Raw Silk and Quickly Changing River, Meena Alexander is the editor of Indian Love Poems. Her autobiography, Fault Lines, chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books, was revised in 2003 to incorporate new material. She is the author of two novels an ...
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The Nehru Centre
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Martin Creed: Works
Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed discusses his work and signs copies of his new book. Known for his straightforward approach to making art and his deft economy of means, Creed has produced sculptures, installations, drawings, films, performances, music and text. His work is simultaneously subtle and spectacular, austere and playful – whethe ...
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The Institute of Contemporary Arts
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London
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United Kingdom
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Unpublished Fiction Writers Open Reading
Come and join us in the Galary - Hornsey Library for an afternoon of fiction. Relax and listen or take part as a reader.
Are you an avid lover of fiction, then this event is sure to delight you. Come and listen to 12 unpublished writers as they read extracts from their works.
We know all to well that these talented individuals could be on t ...
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Hornsey Library
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London
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United Kingdom
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Press Launch : South Asian Literature Festival
With more than 30 events planned and counting, the DSC South Asian Literature Festival will visit some of the great performing arts venues of London and reach out into local communities, schools and libraries. The Festival is partnering with venues, local arts organisations, publishers, authors and artists. The DSC South Asian Literature Festival ( ...
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The Nehru Centre
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United Kingdom
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FC Delius in conversation with Blake Morrison
Friedrich Christian Delius is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary German writers. He talks to Blake Morrison about his book Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman (Bildnis der Mutter als junge Frau) which first appeared in German in 2006 and is now published in English, translated by Jamie Bulloch.
Portrait of the Mother as a Y ...
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Goethe-Institut London
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London
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United Kingdom
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Bernhard Schlink: National Guilt
In his latest book, Guilt About the Past, acclaimed German writer Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and the long shadow of past guilt both as a uniquely German experience and as a global one. He considers how to use the lesson of history to motivate individual moral behavior, how to reconcile a guilt-laden past, how the role of law ...
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The Institute of Contemporary Arts
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London
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United Kingdom
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Punjabi Poetry : Satrangi
Born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1946, Amarjit Chandan has published seven collections of poetry and four books of essays in Punjabi and his poems have appeared in anthologies and magazines world-wide. He has edited and translated into Punjabi about thirty anthologies of Indian and world poetry and fiction by, among others, Brecht, Neruda, Ritsos, Hikmet, ...
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The Nehru Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Down Memory Lane : Sahir Ludhianvi
The popular Urdu poet, Hindi lyricist and songwriter Sahir Ludhianvi won the Filmfare Award twice in his illustrious career, and in 1971 was awarded the Padmashree. He made his debut in the film Aazadi Ki Raah Par (1949) but recognition came with Naujawaan (1951) for which S D Burman composed the music. His first major success came with Guru Dutt's ...
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The Nehru Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Victoria Gowramma: The Lost Princess of Coorg C P Belliappa
Exiled to Benares, the last raja of Coorg, Veerarajendra, and his eleven-year-old daughter Gowramma, were the first Indian royals to visit Victorian England in 1852. Both spent the rest of their lives in Britain. The evangelists, and Queen Victoria herself, eagerly awaited their arrival since Veerarajendra had expressed his desire to see his daught ...
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The Nehru Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Book Launch : DRG DRSYA VIVEKA - The Yoga
This is a new translation and commentary by Clarissa on Drg Drsya Viveka, a short, but powerful _ure of 31 verses, attributed to Adi Shankaracharya, who is said to have lived in the ninth century. The focus of this _ure is awareness itself. From normal daily life, attention is taken all the way to awareness, in which the experiences are happening. ...
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The Nehru Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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An Evening with the Visiting Indian Poets
The Nehru Centre. On this occasion the Annual Vatayan : Poetry on South Bank Award will be presented to the distinguished poet, Lakshmi Shankar Vajpeyi, along with the Sanskriti Sewa Samman and the Hindi Sewa Samman of the UK Hindi Samiti.
A galaxy of eminent and acclaimed poets from India and UK will participate in this Virat Kavi Sammelan inc ...
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The Nehru centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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An Evening with the Visiting Indian Poets
On this occasion the Annual Vatayan : Poetry on South Bank Award will be presented to the distinguished poet, Lakshmi Shankar Vajpeyi, along with the Sanskriti Sewa Samman and the Hindi Sewa Samman of the UK Hindi Samiti.
A galaxy of eminent and acclaimed poets from India and UK will participate in this Virat Kavi Sammelan including the well kn ...
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The Nehru Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Book Launch and Signing: A Million Shillings
Alixandra Fazzina followed the desperate exodus of Somalis fleeing violence in their country, plagued by a ferocious civil war now in its seventeenth year. In a country with the longest coast line in Africa and hemmed in by conflict, one of the only means of escape is by sea. ...
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The Photographers Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Reading Group: Melancholy Realism
Join photographer and writer David Bate for an informal group discussion about this chapter from John Tagg's text The Disciplinary Frame. ...
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The Photographers Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Book launch and singing a million shillings
Alixandra Fazzina followed the desperate exodus of Somalis fleeing violence in their country, plagued by a ferocious civil war now in its seventeenth year. In a country with the longest coast line in Africa and hemmed in by conflict, one of the only means of escape is by sea. ...
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The Photographers Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Reading group - Melancholy Realism
Join photographer and writer David Bate for an informal group discussion about this chapter from John Tagg's text The Disciplinary Frame. ...
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The Photographers Gallery
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London
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United Kingdom
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Swarnim Gujarat Celebration
This evening the nine books edited by Prof Balvant Shantilal Jani on prominent British Gujarati authors including Balvant Nayak, Dahyabhai Patel, Jagdish Dave, Rajnikant Mehta, Vallabh Nadha, Pankaj Vora, Dipak Bardolikar, Adam Tankarvi and others will be launched.
Professor & Head of Dept of Gujarati Language & Literature; Dean, Arts Faculty, ...
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The Nehru centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Andrew Graham-Dixon
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. In his gripping new biography Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane , Andrew Graham-Dixon has spent a decade piecing together the scraps of evidence left of Caravaggio’s life and answers questions that have long puzzled scholars. He reveals the ...
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Daunt Books Marylebone
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London
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United Kingdom
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Maggie OFarrell
Maggie O’Farrell speaks to Sarah Crown about her new novel The Hand That First Held Mine. Her debut novel, After You’d Gone, was published to international acclaim, and won a Betty Trask Award, while her third, The Distance Between Us, won the 2005 Somerset Maugham Award.
Sarah Crown is the editor of Guardian Unlimited Books. She reviews poetry ...
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Daunt Books Hampstead
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London
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United Kingdom
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Indian Essentials
Just what is it that goes into the making of the Indian? The Penguin anthology, Indian Essentials, takes an assembly line look at components ranging from public urination and the obsession with gold to chai pani, the jhatkas of Bollywood, and that thing called NRI. Sanjay Suri will be reading from his chapter on the Republic of Enaristan. And he in ...
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The Nehru centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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