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Shalim M Hussain

Shalim M Hussain is a writer and academic based in Assam. His books include Betel Nut City (RLFA 2019), Post-Colonial Poems (Red River 2019), Asimot Jar Heral Sima (Papyrus Books 2020) and Again I Hear These Waters (Tilted Axis 2024). He has held the Charles Wallace India Trust Creative Writing and Translation Fellowship (2020-21) and been awarded the Pen Translates Award (2021) by English PEN. 

Articles by Shalim M Hussain

Three Poems by Kazi Neel, trans. by Shalim M Hussain
Read three poems by Kazi Neel, written in unnamed dialects from the chars (temporary unstable river-islands) in Assam, India, translated into English by Shalim M Hussain. Their themes range from religious falsities to a woman's hopes to state control, offering glimpses of everyday life and pressures in the region. The poems are presented both in their original script and in English, with an accompanying translator's note.
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