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Sarabjeet Garcha

Sarabjeet Garcha is a poet, editor, and translator. His five books of poems include All We Have and A Clock in the Far Past, in addition to a volume each of poems translated from Marathi and prose translated from Hindi. His translation of three long essays by the iconic Marathi playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar appeared as The Necropolis Trilogy. He has translated several American poets into Hindi, including W. S. Merwin and John Haines, and several Indian poets into English, among them Mangalesh Dabral and Leeladhar Jagoori. His poems and translations have been published in the Notre Dame ReviewVersopolisLyriklineModern Poetry in TranslationAsymptoteTwo Lines Journal, the Indian QuarterlyScroll, and the Wire, among other publications and several anthologies. He has received the Fellowship for Outstanding Artists from the Government of India, the International Publishing Fellowship from the British Council, and the inaugural Godyo Podyo Probondho Award. His poems have been translated into German, Spanish, Russian, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi and Hindi. He is the founder and editorial director of Copper Coin (www.coppercoin.co.in), a multilingual publishing company based in Delhi NCR.