Vinod Kumar Shukla

Born in 1937 in Rajnandgaon, a city in the state of Chhattisgarh in Central India, Vinod Kumar Shukla (phonetically pronounced ‘shook-l’) is one of the most important poets of modern Hindi literature. With work that spans over the course of more than five decades, Shukla has been awarded some of the highest national and international accolades, with his poetry and prose appearing in journals like Granta, Plume, Metamorphoses and elsewhere. In 1999, he was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award, one of the most significant literary honours of India. In 2023, PEN America awarded him the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.