Ranjit Hoskote is an acclaimed poet, translator, cultural theorist and curator. His eight collections of poetry include Vanishing Acts, Central Time, Hunchprose, Jonahwhale and Icelight. His translation of a 14th-century Kashmiri woman saint’s poetry has appeared as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded. Hoskote curated India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale, under the title “Everyone Agrees: It’s About to Explode”, and co-curated the 7th Gwangju Biennale. He has received the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award, the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award, the S H Raza Literature Award and the JLF-Mahakavi Kanhaiya Lal Sethia Award for Poetry.