Hemant Divate

Hemant Divate is a Marathi poet, editor, translator and publisher based in Mumbai.

Biography

Hemant Divate is a poet, editor, publisher, translator and festival director.
He is the author of eight poetry collections in Marathi. His most recent book in Marathi is Paranoia, awarded by Govt. of Maharashtra’s Kavi Keshavsut Purskar. Divate’s poems have been translated into 30 international languages. In translation, he has a book in Spanish, Irish, Arabic, German, Kannada and Estonian, apart from four in English. His poems figure in numerous anthologies in Marathi, English and Slovenian.
He is the founder-editor of the Marathi little magazine Abhidha Nantar. AbhidhaNantar has been credited for providing a solid platform to new poets and for enriching the post-nineties Marathi literary scene. Divate is credited with changing the Marathi literary scene through AbhidhaNantar and the Indian English poetry scene through his imprint Poetrywala.
Divate has participated in numerous international poetry and literature festivals across the globe. His publishing house, has published more than 150 poetry collections.
Hemant is the founder and director of the Mumbai Poetry Festival. Hemant lives and works in Mumbai.
Also by Hemant Divate
Poetry in Marathi
Chautishiparyantchya Kavita : 2001
Thambtach Yet Nahi: 2006
Ya Roommadhye Aale Ki Life Suru Hote : 2012
Reloaded: 2015
Paranoia: 2020
Translations
Les Murraychya Kavita: 2008
Zingonia Zingonechya Kavita : 2014
Walk by Mustansir Dalvi: 2021
Poetry in translation
English | Virus Alert : 2003
English | A Depressingly Monotonous Landscape : 2012
Spanish | Alarma de Virus : 2012
Irish | Foláireamh Víris : 2012
English | Struggles With Imagined Gods : 2013
English | Selected Poems
: 2015,2017
Estonian | Selected Poems : 2016
فضا ٌء رتي ٌب يبع ُث على الكآب | Arabic Butterflies | : 2017
German | Eingenistet in meinen Gedanken : 2017
Man without a navel : 2018, 2021, 2023