Burns Within: Abnish Singh Chauhan

Dr Abnish Singh Chauhan/ अवनीश सिंह चौहान (1979) is a bilingual poet, critic, translator and editor (Hindi and English). He had been invited as Author and Speaker to Ahemdabad International Literature Festival held at Ahemdabad in 2016 and as a Judge and Speaker for ‘Young Poets Competition’ under the banner of 'Rendezvous 2017' held at IIT, Delhi on Oct 15, 2017. His significant books include Speeches of Swami Vivekananda and Subhash Chandra Bose: A Comparative Study, Swami Vivekananda: Select Speeches, Functional English, William Shakespeare: King Lear, The Fictional World of Arun Joshi: Paradigm Shift in Values, Navgeet Vangmay (ed.) and Navgeet: Samvadon Ke Saransh (ed.). His deep interest in translation prompted him to translate thirty poems of BS Gautam Anurag under the title Burns Within from Hindi into English. Besides Harivansh Rai Bachchan Yuva Geetkar Samman (2013) for his Hindi poetry collection Tukada Kagaz Ka from Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan, Lucknow, U.P., he is the recipient of Pratham Kavita Samman (2011) from Kavita Kosh (www.kavitakosh.org), Book of the Year Award (2012) from the Think Club, Michigan, USA, Srajnatmak Sahitya Puraskar (2013) from Rajasthan Patrika, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Navankur Puraskar (2014) from Abhivyakti Vishwam, Sharjah, UAE, etc. He is editor at Creation and Criticism and Poorvabhas. He can be contacted at abnishsinghchauhan@gmail.com.