Date: 5 March 2011
Time : 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Jujo Mukti Tea Lounge, 211 East 4th Street (between Avenues A and B), New York
JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA AND NEPAL: Robert Scotto and Lu Wu with Yuyutsu Sharma
Robert Scotto will read his new work from his travels in India and Nepal with
Photographer, Lu Wu.
Yuyutsu Sharma will read from his new poetry/picture book, Nepal Trilogy (www.nepal-trilogie.de, Epsilonmedia, Germany), authored with German photographer, Andreas Stimm.
Lu Wu will project a selection of her photographs from the journey during the reading.
Robert Scotto was a professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, until his recent retirement. His publications include a Critical Edition of Catch-22, a book on the contemporary novel, and essays on writers like Walter Pater and James Joyce. His most recent book, the biography Moondog, won the ARSC Award for Best Research in Recorded Classical Music and the Independent Publisher Book Awards bronze medal for biography, both in 2008. The second edition will appear in 2012. The forthcoming collection of poems to be published by Nirala Publications will be his first.
Lu Wu was a CPA specializing in international taxation until her recent retirement. Her collaboration with Robert Scotto on the India/Nepal photopoem volume soon to be released is her initial venture in publication.
Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma was born in Nakodar, Punjab (India) and educated at Baring Union Christian College, Batala and later at Rajasthan University, Jaipur. He remained active in the literary circles of Rajasthan and acted in plays by Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee. Later he taught at various campuses of Punjab University, and Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu. A distinguished poet and translator, he is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature. He has published eight poetry collections including, Space Cake, Amsterdam, & Other Poems from Europe and America, (Howling Dog Press, Colorado,2009); AnnapurnaPoems, (Nirala, New Delhi 2008); Everest Failures (White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu, 2008); The Nepal Trilogy (Parts I-III), Photographs and Poetry about the Nepal areas of Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang, 2010, with German photographer Andreas Stimm; a translation of Hebrew poet Ronny Someck’s poetry in Nepali in a bilingual collection, Baghdad, February 1991 & Other Poems. He has translated and edited several anthologies of contemporary Nepali poetry into English. The literary movement, Kathya Kayakalpa (Content Metamorphosis) in Nepali poetry was launched by Mr. Sharma. Currently, he edits Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing and contributes literary columns to Nepal’s leading daily, The Himalayan Times.
More information here.
Time : 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Jujo Mukti Tea Lounge, 211 East 4th Street (between Avenues A and B), New York
JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA AND NEPAL: Robert Scotto and Lu Wu with Yuyutsu Sharma
Robert Scotto will read his new work from his travels in India and Nepal with
Photographer, Lu Wu.
Yuyutsu Sharma will read from his new poetry/picture book, Nepal Trilogy (www.nepal-trilogie.de, Epsilonmedia, Germany), authored with German photographer, Andreas Stimm.
Lu Wu will project a selection of her photographs from the journey during the reading.
Robert Scotto was a professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, until his recent retirement. His publications include a Critical Edition of Catch-22, a book on the contemporary novel, and essays on writers like Walter Pater and James Joyce. His most recent book, the biography Moondog, won the ARSC Award for Best Research in Recorded Classical Music and the Independent Publisher Book Awards bronze medal for biography, both in 2008. The second edition will appear in 2012. The forthcoming collection of poems to be published by Nirala Publications will be his first.
Lu Wu was a CPA specializing in international taxation until her recent retirement. Her collaboration with Robert Scotto on the India/Nepal photopoem volume soon to be released is her initial venture in publication.
Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma was born in Nakodar, Punjab (India) and educated at Baring Union Christian College, Batala and later at Rajasthan University, Jaipur. He remained active in the literary circles of Rajasthan and acted in plays by Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee. Later he taught at various campuses of Punjab University, and Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu. A distinguished poet and translator, he is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature. He has published eight poetry collections including, Space Cake, Amsterdam, & Other Poems from Europe and America, (Howling Dog Press, Colorado,2009); AnnapurnaPoems, (Nirala, New Delhi 2008); Everest Failures (White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu, 2008); The Nepal Trilogy (Parts I-III), Photographs and Poetry about the Nepal areas of Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang, 2010, with German photographer Andreas Stimm; a translation of Hebrew poet Ronny Someck’s poetry in Nepali in a bilingual collection, Baghdad, February 1991 & Other Poems. He has translated and edited several anthologies of contemporary Nepali poetry into English. The literary movement, Kathya Kayakalpa (Content Metamorphosis) in Nepali poetry was launched by Mr. Sharma. Currently, he edits Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing and contributes literary columns to Nepal’s leading daily, The Himalayan Times.
More information here.
