Anju Makhija

Anju Makhija is a Sahitya Akademi award-winning poet, playwright and translator. She has an M.A. in Communications from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. She is the
author of several books: Seeking the Beloved, a co-translation of the 16th century Sufi poet, Shah Abdul Latif; Pickling Season, View from the Web, Poems Grow With You; The Last Train and Other Plays. She has also co-edited a 3-volume series of Indo-English drama and anthologies related to partition, women and young readers.

Anju’s plays have been staged in India and abroad. Her awards include: the Charles Wallace Trust Scholarship (‘97), the BBC World Poetry Prize (‘02) and the Sahitya Akademi English Translation Prize (‘11). She was on the English Advisory Board
of the Sahitya Akademi for 5 years and is the co-founder of the Pondicherry/Auroville Poetry Festival. Currently, she livesin Mumbai.