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Kuldip Singh

Kuldip Singh (b. 1938) is a former teacher of physiology.
His poems have appeared in magazines and literary journals including the Poetry
Review (Vol 69, No 3, March 1980). He has also published short stories in a number of
magazines.
At the request of a writer friend, he translated Weekend, a Nirmal Verma short
story, which was published in The Illustrated Weekly of India. He then turned to doing
more of his stories. Soon he got to translating some of the other Hindi and Punjabi short
story writers.
Anthologies in which Nirmal Verma short stories appear in his translation:
1. The Vikas Book of Modern Indian Love Stories (Ed: Pritish Nandy, 1979).
2. Maya Darpan And Other Stories (OUP, 1986). Readers International brought it
out (1988) under the title The World Elsewhere and Other Stories.
3. The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories (Ed: Stephen Alter, Wimal
Dissanayake, 1989).
4. The Crows of Deliverance (Readers International, 1991), republished (1992) by
Penguin Books.
5. Such A Big Yearning & Other Stories (HarperCollins India, 1995).
6. The Last Exit (Sahitya Akademi, 1999).
7. Modern Hindi Short Stories (Ed: Indu Jain, 2001).
8. An Inch and A Half Above Ground: Collected Stories (Rupa & Co, 2004).
Deliverance, included in The Crows of Deliverance, first appeared in Bahuvachan (Ed:
Krishna Baldev Vaid, J. Swaminathan, and Ashok Vajpeyi, 1988), then in Tradition,
Modernity & Svaraj (Ed: K.J. Shah, Amrit Srinivasan, 1990). The Gossamer, another
short story from it, was republished in London Magazine (October/November, 1990).
Kaya, the first chapter of The Red Tin Roof by Nirmal Verma, was first published in
Temenos 11 (London, 1990). Stories from India, an earlier collection brought out by
Sterling Publishers (Ed: Khushwant Singh, Qurratulain Hyder, 1974) carried Nirmal
Verma’s Weekend, also Gurdial Singh’s The Widow, a Punjabi short story.
Preface: An Intervention, an excerpt from Dastan-e-Lapata, a critically acclaimed novel
by Manzoor Ahtesham was first published in Living Literature (Ed: Barbara Lotz,
Vishnu Khare, 1998). Hour of Father, Hour of Death, by Gagan Gill, first appeared in
Hindi: Language, Discourse, Writing (Ed: Ashok Vajpeyi, Rustam Singh, and Suman
Arora, 2001) and subsequently in South Asian Ensemble (Ed: Gurdev Chauhan, Rajesh
Sharma, 2013).
Novels (Translations)
1. An Island of Sal by Shaani, National Publishing House, Delhi, 1981.
2. A Rag Called Happiness by Nirmal Verma, Penguin Books, 1993.

(Republished by Penguin Books in Modern Classics series, 2014)
3. The Red Tin Roof by Nirmal Verma, Ravi Dayal Publisher, Delhi, 1997.
(Republished by Penguin Books in Modern Classics series, 2013)
4. A Dying Banyan by Manzoor Ahtesham, Rupa & Co, Delhi, 2005
(Shortlisted for Crossword Indian Language Fiction Translation Award 2005)

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This My Body Is Kiklos

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First, a word about Kiklos. A variant spelling of Greek word Kyklos meaning cycle or circle, it is, in the present context – to quote Nevil Coghill, President, The Poetry Society, which first published the Gavin Bantock poem in question, namely Ichor – the‘circle-city of person itself.’

This My Body Is Kiklos – a quote from Ichor – retraces Parminder Singh’s journey into the dim and distant past, another inwards. In the course of his journ

This My Body Is Kiklos

Books by Kuldip Singh

This My Body Is Kiklos – a quote from Ichor – retraces Parminder Singh’s journey into the dim and distant past, another inwards. In the course of his jo

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Kuldip Singh (b. 1938) is a former teacher of physiology. His poems have appeared in magazines and literary journals including the Poetry Review (Vol 69, No 3, March 1980). He has also published short stories in a number of magazines. At the request of a writer friend, he translated Weekend, a Nirmal Verma short story, which was published in The Illustrated Weekly of India. He then turned to doing more of his stories. Soon he got to translating some of the other Hindi and Punjabi short story writers. Anthologies in which Nirmal Verma short stories appear in his translation: 1. The Vikas Book of Modern Indian Love Stories (Ed: Pritish Nandy, 1979). 2. Maya Darpan And Other Stories (OUP, 1986). Readers International brought it out (1988) under the title The World Elsewhere and Other Stories. 3. The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories (Ed: Stephen Alter, Wimal Dissanayake, 1989). 4. The Crows of Deliverance (Readers International, 1991), republished (1992) by Penguin Books. 5. Such A Big Yearning & Other Stories (HarperCollins India, 1995). 6. The Last Exit (Sahitya Akademi, 1999). 7. Modern Hindi Short Stories (Ed: Indu Jain, 2001). 8. An Inch and A Half Above Ground: Collected Stories (Rupa & Co, 2004). Deliverance, included in The Crows of Deliverance, first appeared in Bahuvachan (Ed: Krishna Baldev Vaid, J. Swaminathan, and Ashok Vajpeyi, 1988), then in Tradition, Modernity & Svaraj (Ed: K.J. Shah, Amrit Srinivasan, 1990). The Gossamer, another short story from it, was republished in London Magazine (October/November, 1990). Kaya, the first chapter of The Red Tin Roof by Nirmal Verma, was first published in Temenos 11 (London, 1990). Stories from India, an earlier collection brought out by Sterling Publishers (Ed: Khushwant Singh, Qurratulain Hyder, 1974) carried Nirmal Verma’s Weekend, also Gurdial Singh’s The Widow, a Punjabi short story. Preface: An Intervention, an excerpt from Dastan-e-Lapata, a critically acclaimed novel by Manzoor Ahtesham was first published in Living Literature (Ed: Barbara Lotz, Vishnu Khare, 1998). Hour of Father, Hour of Death, by Gagan Gill, first appeared in Hindi: Language, Discourse, Writing (Ed: Ashok Vajpeyi, Rustam Singh, and Suman Arora, 2001) and subsequently in South Asian Ensemble (Ed: Gurdev Chauhan, Rajesh Sharma, 2013). Novels (Translations) 1. An Island of Sal by Shaani, National Publishing House, Delhi, 1981. 2. A Rag Called Happiness by Nirmal Verma, Penguin Books, 1993. (Republished by Penguin Books in Modern Classics series, 2014) 3. The Red Tin Roof by Nirmal Verma, Ravi Dayal Publisher, Delhi, 1997. (Republished by Penguin Books in Modern Classics series, 2013) 4. A Dying Banyan by Manzoor Ahtesham, Rupa & Co, Delhi, 2005 (Shortlisted for Crossword Indian Language Fiction Translation Award 2005)

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