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Aditya Vikram Shrivastava

Aditya Vikram Shrivastava is a writer, translator, and scholar from Lucknow, India. They teach critical thinking to undergraduate students at Ashoka University. Spanning several media, their work is tied together by questions of language, translation, regional histories, spectrality, and sexuality. Their translation of Mridula Garg’s literary fiction has appeared in Words Without Borders. A recipient of the 2024 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship, and shortlisted for the PEN Presents award last year, they are currently translating a collection of Hindi short stories exploring violence, democracy, faith, and justice.  

Articles by Aditya Vikram Shrivastava

The Spirits of Shah Alam Camp by Asghar Wajahat, trans. by Aditya Vikram
On whose face do the shadows of a divided history fall? This short story by Asghar Wajahat – translated from Hindi by Aditya Vikram – observes a refugee camp set up in the aftermath of the 2002 pogrom in Gujarat, India, haunted by the spirits of lost loved ones. Writing in an unabashedly Muslim voice, the story is narrated similarly to a dastaan, an oral form of Urdu storytelling from North India, and examines the psychic wounds of marginalisation based on faith, class, and gender pervading a rotting democracy. With an illustration by Simone Khanyi Hadebe. 
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