Mangalesh Dabral

Mangalesh Dabral was a renowned poet, translator, essayist and journalist. He authored four books of prose and seven books of poems in Hindi, including Hum Jo Dekhte Hain (What We See), for which he received the Sahitya Akademi Award. Dabral’s poetry has been translated in all major Indian languages and several foreign languages, including English, Russian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Polish and Bulgarian. He translated the Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness to Hindi as Apaar Khushi Ka Gharana.