Shalim M. Hussain

Shalim Muktadir Hussain is an Assamese poet, translator, activist, filmmaker and academic. He is a doctoral candidate at the Department of English of Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. Belonging to the Miya poetry movement, Hussain is a founding member of the Miya Community Research Collective.
Hussain's first poetry collection, Betel Nut City, was published in 2019, after winning the R L Poetry Award in 2017. Post-Colonial Poems, his English translation of poetry by the Adivasi writer Kamal Kumar Tanti was published the same year, followed by a translation of the popular Assamese novel Asimot Jar Heral Sima in 2020. In 2020, Hussain also won the 2020 Charles Wallace India Trust Literary Translation and Creative Writing Fellowship for his poem I am Miyah, which was included in his 2024 anthology, Again I Hear These Waters. The collection, consisting primarily of poetry translated from the Char-Chapori Assamese and Bengali dialect into English, won Hussain a PEN Translates award in 2021.