KARTHIKA NAÏR

Karthika Naïr is the author of Bearings (HarperCollins India, 2009), a poetry collection; DESH: Memories, inherited, borrowed, invented (MC2, Grenoble, 2013), a dance diary; and The Honey Hunter/ Le Tigre de Miel (Young Zubaan, India, and Editions Hélium, France, 2013), a children’s book illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet. She was born in India, lives in Paris, and works as a dance producer and curator. She worked in institutions like the Cité de la musique, Centre national de la danse, Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration and the Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil, heading the production departments of the last two. She also did a stint at Het Toneelhuis in Antwerp, managing the projects of their associate choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and setting up his company, Eastman. This proximity to performing arts and to dance, in particular, is refracted in much of her poetry, which has been published in several anthologies and journals including Asymptote, Indian Literature, Caravan India, Poetry International, The Wolf Magazine, Terre à Ciel, Saint-Denis: portraits sensibles, Penguin’s 60 Indian Poets and the Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (both edited by Jeet Thayil), The Literary Review and The Poetry Review (issues edited by Sudeep Sen). Her poems have been translated into French and Italian.