Shiv K. Kumar

Shiv K. Kumar is an Indian poet, playwright, novelist, and short story writer .

Early life and education

Shiv K Kumar was born in Lahore in 1921, and was matriculated from Dayanand Anglo-Vedic High School (1937) and did his M.A. at Forman Christian College, Lahore (1943). In 1943, he joined D.A.V. College Lahore as a lecturer, but moved to Delhi during the partition. After brief stints teaching at Hansraj College and at All India Radio, Delhi, he left to join the Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, in 1950. In 1956, he received his PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University^[1].

From 1959 to 1986, Shiv K. Kumar taught English literature at Osmania University and the University of Hyderabad, besides being a Visiting Professor at various British and American universities. In 1978, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London^[2] during his stay in England as Commonwealth Visiting Professor of English at the University of Kent at Canterbury . He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1987 for his collection of poems Trapfalls in the Sky . In 2001 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to literature.

He lives in Hyderabad and is married to Madhu: they have two children.^[3]^[4]

His published works include:

collections of poetry :

Articulate Silences, Writers Workshop, 1970
Cobwebs in the Sun, Tata McGraw-Hill (1974)
Subterfuges, Oxford University Press (1976) (includes the oft anthologized poem Indian Women^[5])
Woodpeckers, Sidgwick & Jackson (1976)
Trapfalls in the Sky, MacMillian (1986) (Sahitya Akademi Award for English, 1987)
Woolgathering, Orient Longman (1998)
Thus Spake the Buddha 2002
Losing My Way: Poems, Peacock Books (2008) ^[6]

The volume Trapfalls in the Sky has also been translated into Urdu and Hindi.

a play:

novels and short stories:

poetry translation :

Persondata
Name	Kumar, Shiv K.
Alternative names
Short description	English language Indian poet,
Date of birth	1921
Place of birth	Lahore
Date of death
Place of death