Satyarth Anirudh Pankaj

Poet and Translator

Satyarth Anirudh Pankaj is a Hindi poet and translator based in Lucknow. Born in Sasaram, Bihar, he completed his undergraduate degree from IGNOU, followed by an MA and MPhil in Hindi from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

His first poem was published in 'Samayik Varta' in February 2003. Since then, his poems and translations have appeared in leading Hindi literary publications, including 'Sadaneera', 'Kriti Bahumat', 'Prayag Path', 'India Today's annual issue', 'Samkaleen Janmat' and 'Parinde', as well as on 'The Lallantop'. In 2003, 'Rashtriya Sahara' published his interview-based features on the books of Nirmal Verma, Mannu Bhandari, Uday Prakash, Krishna Baldev Vaid, Asghar Wajahat, Maitreyi Pushpa and Mridula Garg, among others.

He is particularly drawn to world poetry in Hindi translation, with his work spanning poets such as Seamus Heaney, Charles Simic, W. S. Merwin, Wisława Szymborska, Natalie Diaz and Warsan Shire, as well as contemporary poets from Africa and elsewhere. He has also translated Milan Kundera's essays on the novel into Hindi.