Bhanu Kapil

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Bhanu Khapil
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Khapil speaking at an event at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania
Born1968 (age 55–56)
Occupationwriter
Awards T. S. Eliot Prize (2020)

Bhanu Kapil (born 1968) [1] is a British-born poet and author of Indian descent. She is best known for her books The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (2001), Incubation: A Space for Monsters (2006), and Ban en Banlieue (2015).

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In 2020, Kapil won one of eight Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes. [2]

Personal life and education

Kapil was born in 1968 [1] outside of London [3] to Indian parents. [4] In 1990, she moved to the United States, [4] then returned to England in 2019. [3] She presently spends her time in both the United Kingdom and the United States. [1]

Kapil received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loughborough University and a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from the State University of New York Brockport. [4]

Career

Kapil's first book, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, was written in the late 1990s. [5] She has cited Salman Rushdie's 1980 Booker Prize win as a formative experience for her, saying "Perhaps then, for the first time, I understood that someone like me: could. Could look like me and write." [6] In early 2015, The Believer held a round-table discussion of her work over the course of three days. [7]

2009's Humanimal: A Project for Future Children took its inspiration from the nonfiction account of Amala and Kamala, two girls found "living with wolves in colonial Bengal." [8] Douglas A. Martin has described Incubation: A Space For Monsters as "a feminist, post-colonial On the Road ." [9] Kapil also contributed the introduction to Amina Cain's short story collection I Go To Some Hollow. [10] Her public readings have elements of performance art. [11] Her poetry appeared in a collection edited by Brian Droitcour that was produced as part of the New Museum's 2015 Triennial. [12]

Aside from writing, Kapil has taught at Naropa University, [3] as well as in Goddard College’s Master of Fine Arts program. [1] She has also contributed and co-taught in the Master's in Leadership for Sustainability program at the University of Vermont. [13]

In 2019, Kapil received a year-long fellowship at the University of Cambridge; after the fellowship, she remained as an artist by-fellow at Churchill College. [3] In 2022, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [13]

Awards and honours

Incubation: A Space for Monsters was a Small Press Distribution best-seller. [14] Ban en Banlieue was named one of Time Out New York's most anticipated books of early 2015. [15]

In 2019, Kapil received the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship from the University of Cambridge. [16]

In March 2020 Kapil was awarded one of eight Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes. [2] In January 2021, she was awarded the 2020 T. S Eliot Poetry Prize for How to Wash a Heart. [17] [3] She has also received the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. [16]

Publications

Books

Chapbooks

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