Manohar Shetty

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Manohar Shetty
Manohar Shetty, Poet, Goa. 2.jpg
Shetty in 2017
Born1953 (age 71–72)
Bombay, Bombay State, India
OccupationWriter, poet, editor
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry, short story, anthology
Years active1981–present
Notable worksFerry Crossings; work included in The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets.
SpouseDevika Sequeira
Children2

Manohar Shetty (born 1953) [1] is an Indian poet, writer, and literary editor based in Goa, India. He is considered as one of the prominent Indian poets writing in the English language. [2]

Contents

He has been a Senior Fellow with the Sahitya Akademi, the Indian academy of arts and letters, and his work is found in several anthologies, including The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets [3] edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and anthologies edited by Eunice de Souza, Vilas Sarang and Jeet Thayil.

Life

Manohar Shetty was born in Bombay and educated in Panchgani. [4] He graduated from Bombay University in 1974 and began working as a journalist. [4] [5]

Critical perspectives

Shetty's poetry is seen as being an integral part of the "chronology of modern Indian English poetry." [6] [7] His poetry is described as revelling in "the celebration of the sombre" and being filled with "sepulchral images" while their "mood is predominantly one of helplessness and lethargy." [4]

Shetty is listed in Sudeep Sen's essay "New Indian Poetry: The 1990s Perspective", published in World Literature Today, Vol. 68, No. 2. [8] K. Narayana Chandran of the University of Hyderabad, while reviewing [9] Shetty's Domestic Creatures in World Literature Today, comments: "To be able to write magnificently about the little world one knows – and what passionate care all this involves – is no small gift for a poet. Manohar Shetty is an eminently gifted poet in this sense."

In another review [10] of Shetty's A Guarded Space, in 1982 in the same journal (World Literature Today), S. Amanuddin is more critical. New Delhi-based magazine Caravan described Shetty as "something of a rarity among Indian English poets of his and preceding generations, who have tended to be rather less consistent in their output." [11]

Poetry volumes

As of 2017, he has published eight volumes of poetry. They are:

Books edited

Fellowships awarded

Earlier, he has been a Homi Bhaba Fellow and a Senior Sahitya Akademi Fellow.

Translations, evaluation of work

His work has been translated into Finnish, German, Italian, Marathi and Slovenian.

Evaluations of his work have been included in Modern Indian Poetry in English (New Delhi: OUP, 1987, 2011, Bruce King Ed.) and An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Ed.).

His work has appeared in The Baffler (US), the London Magazine, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Wasafiri, Chelsea (US), Rattapallax (US), Fulcrum (US), Shenandoah (US), The Common (US), New Letters (US), Helix (Australia).

Personal life

He has been based in Goa since 1985. Shetty is based in Dona Paula, a suburb some seven kilometres from the state capital of Panjim (Panaji) in Goa. He has written an account [16] of his experiences with alcohol in the book House Spirit: Drinking in India – Stories, Essays, Poems [18] (Speaking Tiger Books).

Notes

  1. ↑ "Manohar Shetty". Open Space. OpenSpaceIndia.org. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Benson, Eugene; Conolly, L. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Routledge. p. 1438. ISBN   9781134468485.
  3. ↑ Tejpal, Tarun J. "The new literary map". indiatoday.intoday.in. India Today. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "Entry for Manohar Shetty," Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English by Eugene Benson, Routledge, 2004, p. 1438.
  5. ↑ Wong, Mitali Pati; Hassan, Syed Khwaja Moinul (2012). The English Language Poetry of South Asians: A Critical Study. McFarland. p. 76. ISBN   9780786436224.
  6. ↑ "The Third Generation: Melanie Silgardo and Manohar Shetty," chapter 21 of A History of Indian Poetry in English by Rosinka Chaudhuri, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  7. ↑ "The Third Generation: Melanie Silgardo and Manohar Shetty," chapter 21 of A History of Indian Poetry in English by Rosinka Chaudhuri, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  8. ↑ Sen, Sudeep (1994). "New Indian Poetry: The 1990s Perspective". World Literature Today. 68 (2): 276. doi:10.2307/40150142. JSTOR   40150142.(subscription required)
  9. ↑ Chandran, K. Narayana (Autumn 1995). "Review-Domestic Creatures by Manohar Shetty". World Literature Today. 69 (4): 875. doi:10.2307/40151820. JSTOR   40151820.(subscription required)
  10. ↑ Amanuddin, S. (Autumn 1982). "Review-A Guarded Space by Manohar Shetty". World Literature Today. 56 (4): 758. doi:10.2307/40138461. JSTOR   40138461.(subscription required)
  11. ↑ Sharanya. "Private Eye: The strange, sensuous world of Manohar Shetty's poetry". caravanmagazine.in. Caravan Magazine. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  12. ↑ Shetty, Manohar (2015). Personal Effects. Copper Coin. ISBN   9789384109066.
  13. ↑ Shetty, Manohar (2014). Living Room: Poems. Harper Collins. ISBN   9789351369776.
  14. ↑ "Manohar Shetty". Poetry with Prakriti 2016. Poetry With Prakriti (Chennai). Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  15. ↑ Shetty, Manohar (1994). Domestic Creatures: Poems. Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780195634549.
  16. 1 2 3 Shetty, Manohar. "A poet remembers: Drinking in Goa and why alcohol is a false god". Daily O. dailyo.in. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  17. ↑ Shetty, Manohar (2000). Ferry Crossing: Short Stories From Goa. Penguin UK. ISBN   9789351181156.
  18. ↑ Mehrotra, Palash Krishna (ed.). "House Spirit: Drinking in India-Stories, Essays, Poems". Goodreads. Goodreads. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
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