Vihang A. Naik


Vihang A. Naik or Vihang Ashokbhai Naik is a modern bilingual poet from Gujarat, India. He has authored many collections of poetry in English and Gujarati, besides translating poems from Gujarati into English. He died in the year 2021.
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Biography

Vihang A. Naik was born on September 2, 1969 at Surat, in Gujarat into a Gujarati family in Surat. From Surat, he moved to Baroda, Ahmedabad and other cities out of Gujarat. He did his matriculation from a local school in Vadodara, obtained a bachelor's degree in arts and master's degree from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He taught English in various colleges of North Gujarat. He retired in 2019.
Naik has translated his own Gujarati Poetry "Jeevangeet" into English. His poetry is included in various anthologies, literary journals and magazines such as Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry, The Dance of the Peacock, The Indian P.E.N.,''The Journal of Poetry Society ,The Journal of Literature and Aesthetics, Indian Literature, The Brown Critique, Poetry Chain, Kavya Bharati, The Journal of Indian Writing In English, Coldnoon: Travel Poetics, Muse India'' etc.

Awards

Vihang Naik has won several awards for his poetry including Michael Madhusudan Dutt Prize, Beverely Hills Book Award 2016, Book Excellence Award 2017 and Konark Literary Fest Award 2019.
In 2016 his poetry collection City Times and Other Poems entered Limca Book of Records for the poem "Self Portrait" which was composed of only five blank pages.

Poetry books

City Times and Other Poems first published by Kolkata: Writers Workshop, India 1993.Poetry Manifesto , published by Indialog Publications Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 2010.Making A Poem Jeevangeet, published by Navbharat Sahitya Mandir, Ahmedabad, 2001.

Poetry anthologies

Travelogue : The Grand Indian Express ed. by Dr. Ananad Kumar and published by Authorspress, New DelhiAnthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry ed. by Menka Shivdasani and published by Michael Rothenberg, Big Bridge United States.The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India ed. by Vivekanand Jha and published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada. Scaling Heights : An Anthology of Contemporary Indian English Poetry eds. by Dr. Gopal Lahiri and Dr.Kirti Sengupta and published by Authorspress, New DelhiExiled Among Natives eds. by Prof. Charu Sheel Singh, Dr. Binod Mishra and published by Adhyayan Publishers, New DelhiThe Golden Treasure of Writers Workshop Poetry ed. by Rubana Huq and published by Writers Workshop, CalcuttaA New Book of Indian Poems In English ed. by Gopi Kottoor and published by Poetry Chain and Writers Workshop, CalcuttaAccent on Indian English Poetry ed. by Ed. H. S. Shivaprakash and published by Indian Literature Special issue Sahitya Akademi, New DelhiA Decade of Poetry eds. Prabhanjan K. Mishra, Menka Shivdasani, Jerry Pinto and Ranjit Hoskote Special edition of Poiesis : A Journal of Poetry Circle, Bombay

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