Kalpna Singh-Chitni, the "Jewel of Bihar." She received the Indian equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize the year I graduated from high school, in 1986 -- before she was 21 years old. She is revered on the sub-continent, and has published in nearly every major literary journal there. Also got the Rajiv Gandhi Global Excellence Award this year, for her contributions to Indian art and literature.
Her first collection in English is coming out soon in print. Incredibly, Kalpna has asked me to write her introduction, and I accepted this seemingly-impossible task. This is a good page to familiarize yourself with her work, with comments from some serious heavyweight writers and icons -- two Nobel Prize nominees, one of whom has blurbed this collection for which I am writing the introduction. Naseer Ahmed Nasir, a giant of Urdu literature.
http://kalpnasinghchitnis.com/impressions/
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