Nandini Sahu (born 23 July 1973) is an Indian poet and creative writer. She is the Director, School of Foreign Languages and professor of English at Indira Gandhi National Open University GNOU New Delhi. Her areas of research interest cover Indian Literature, New Literatures, Folklore and Culture Studies, American Literature, Children’s Literature and Critical Theory. She is the Chief Editor/Founder Editor of Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature and Language(IJLL), and Panorama Literaria, both bi-annual peer-reviewed journals in English. She is also professor of English at the

Indira Gandhi National Open University Indira Gandhi National Open University, known as IGNOU, is a Central University located at Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, India. Named after former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi, the university was established in 1985 with a budget of 20& ...

, New Delhi, India. She has written several books including poetry in English. Her poetry has been published in India, US, UK, Africa and Pakistan. She has won three gold medals in

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and also the award of ''All India Poetry Contest'' in 1993 at Saint Xavier College, Ranchi and ''Shiksha Ratna Purashkar''. She is also editor in chief of ''Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature and Language''

Early life

Sahu was born on 23 July 1973 in G. Udayagiri in

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, India. Her parents were teachers in Indian local schools. She and her five sisters grew up in an obedience life. She has accomplished her doctorate in English literature under the guidance of Late Prof. Niranjan Mohanty, Prof. of English, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. She is also obtaining

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, on Native American Literature. She is serving as Professor of English language at the

, New Delhi. She has also attended national seminars.

Literary career

Sahu has written several books including poetry collections. She is the Amazon best seller author with 17 books published. Her writings are based on the subjects of Indian-English Literature,

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, English Language Teaching (ELT), Folklore and Culture Studies and also Children's literature. The renowned Hindi Translator Dinesh Kumar Mali had translated her epic poetry Sita in Hindi, her representative poems as well as her stories. She has designed and developed programmes on

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and Culture studies for IGNOU. She is also the editor-in-chief of ''Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature And Language'', New Delhi. Moreover, Sahu has delivered lectures on various subjects in India and abroad.

Awards

* Award of ''All India Poetry Contest'' * Award of ''Shiksha Ratna Purashkar'' * Three Gold Medals in English literature * Poiesis Award of Honor-2015 * Buddha Creative Writers’ Award *The Gold Medal from the Vice-President of India for her contribution to English Studies in India.

Publications

Selected works

* ''The Other Voice, a collection of poems'', 2004 * ''The Silence'', 2005 * ''Silver Poems on My Lips'', 2009 * ''Sukamaa and Other Poems'' Published by The Poetry Society of India, Gurgaon * ''Suvarnarekha'' : An anthology of Indian women poets *
Sita (A Poem)
' * “Dynamics of Children’s Literature” * “Zero Point” *
Re-reading Jayanta Mahapatra: Selected Poems_
' *
सीता महाकाव्य: हिन्दी अनुवाद_
' *
A Song Half & Half_
'

Critical books

* ''Recollection as Redemption'', 2004 * ''Post Modernist Delegations in English Language Teaching: The Quixotic Deluge'', 2005 * ''The Post Colonial Space: Writing the Self and The Nation'', 2008Mohit Kumar Ray ''Studies In Elt, Linguistics And Applied Linguistics'' Page vii 2004 "Dr Nandini Sahu makes out a case for Indian poetics as a significant body of critical criteria and pleads for their ... " * '' Folklore and the Alternative Modernities(Vol I & II)'', 2012

References

External links

Poems By Dr Nandini Sahu (Confluence – South Asian Perspectives)

Nandini Sahu's Silver Poems on My Lips – A Search for Love in Vacuum

Dr. Nandini Sahu's The Other Voice: An enduring poetic legacy

Bilingual blog of poems of Dr Nandini Sahu

Bilingual blog of Sita of Dr Nandini Sahu

Dr. Nandini Sahu
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