Hemant Divate


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

Biography

Hemant Divate is a poet, editor, publisher and translator. He is the
founder-editor of the Marathi little magazine Abhidhanantar, which was
published uninterruptedly for 15 years. Abhidhanantar has been credited
for providing a solid platform to new poets and for enriching the postnineties
Marathi literary scene. Divate is credited with changing the
Marathi literary scene through Abhidhanantar and the Indian English
poetry scene through his imprint Poetrywala. He is the author of six
poetry collections in Marathi. Divate’s poems have been translated into
French, Italian, Slovak, Japanese, Persian, Maltese, Serbian, Slovenian,
Greek, Hindi and many Indian languages. In translation, he has a book
each in Spanish, Irish, Arabic, German and Estonian apart from four
in English. His poems figure in numerous anthologies in Marathi and
English. The most significant among these are These My Words edited by
Eunice de Souza and Melanie Silgardo, The Red Hen Anthology of Indian
Poetry edited by Ravi Shankar and Sampurna Chattarji, 100 Great Poems
in Indian languages from the Last 3000 Years edited by Abhay K Kumar,
and Kavita Antologija Sodobne Indijske Poezije edited by Evald Flisar and K Satchidanandan.
Divate has participated in numerous international poetry and literature
festivals across the globe. His publishing house, Paperwall Media &
Publishing, has published more than 100
poetry collections. Hemant lives and works in Mumbai.

Poetry

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