Amit Majmudar
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Amit Majmudar is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.[1]
Life
Majmudar, a son of Indian immigrants, grew up in the Cleveland area. He earned a BS at the University of Akron and an MD at Northeast Ohio Medical University.[2] He is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine practicing full-time in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his wife Ami and his twin sons, Shiv and Savya, and daughter Aishani. One of the twins has a congenital heart defect.[3]
His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,[4] Image,[5] Poetry, Poetry Northwest, National Poetry Review,[6] The New England Review, Smartish Pace,[7] River Styx,[8] and The New Yorker.[9]
Bibliography
Novels
- Sitayana. 2019.
- The Abundance: A Novel. Metropolitan Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8050-9658-3. Search this book on
- Partitions. 2011.
Short fiction
- "Secret Lives of the Detainees", The Kenyon Review, 2016; selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 (Anchor Books), edited by Laura Furman; noted as favorite in book by juror Elizabeth McCracken. ISBN 978-0-525-43250-0 Search this book on .
Poetry
Collections
- Entrance. Ohm Publishing. 1997. ISBN 978-0-9658704-9-8. Search this book on
- 0°, 0°: Poems. Northwestern University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8101-2625-1. Search this book on
- Heaven and Earth. 2011. Search this book on [10]
- Dothead
List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| The beard | 2017 | Majmudar, Amit (July 3, 2017). "The beard". The New Yorker. 93 (19): 44–45. |
- "By Accident", Counter Balance
- "The Miscarriage", Poetry, June 2008
- "Instructions to an Artisan", Poetry, June 2008
- "Reading", The Formalist
- "To The Hyphenated Poets", Poetry, September 2012
- Heather McHugh; David Lehman, eds. (2007). "By Accident". The Best American Poetry 2007. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9973-2. Search this book on
Translations
- Godsong : a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita
Anthologies
- Resistance, rebellion, life : 50 poems now / edited and introduced by Amit Majmudar
Notes
- ↑ Randy Ludlow, Dublin physician named first Ohio poet laureate, Columbus Dispatch, 17 Dec. 2015 (accessed 17 Dec. 2015)
- ↑ "A Poet Laureate for Ohio". Clevelandpoetics. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
- ↑ Majmudar, Amit (10 August 2020). "Identical Twins With Two Very Different Destinies". The New York Times.
- ↑ John Donald Kingsley (2006). The Antioch Review. Google Books. Antioch Review, Incorporated. Retrieved 20 December 2014. Search this book on
- ↑ "Image ◊ Journal ◊ Back Issues ◊ Issue 50". imagejournal.org. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ The National Poetry Review. Google Books. Dream Horse Press. 1 January 2009. ISBN 9780982115527. Retrieved 20 December 2014. Search this book on
- ↑ "Poet Index & Photos - Smartish Pace (a poetry review)". Smartish Pace. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ Majmudar, Amit. "Amit Majmudar". River Styx Literary Magazine. River Styx. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ↑ Majmudar, Amit (March 21, 2011). "The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim". The New Yorker.
- ↑ Amit Majmudar, Verse Wisconsin (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)
Further reading
- "Book Review: 'Partitions'". NPR.
- "Review: Poetry by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar". The New York Times.
- "Amit Majmudar's 'The Abundance' trades fake family happiness for something real". The Plain Dealer.
- "Four lives displaced by the dividing of India; Books and Authors". The Seattle Times. (subscription required)
- "A New Wave". The Virginian-Pilot. (subscription required)
- "3 books about restless Indians". The Washington Post. (subscription required)
- "Amit Majmudar puts the 1947 'Partitions' on a human scale: New in Paperback". The Plain Dealer.
- "Indian American Novelist Amit Majmudar Named Ohio’s First Poet Laureate". India West.
- "Ohio’s first official poet says writing isn’t work". The Columbus Dispatch.
- "To Take Out Trump, Hillary Clinton Must First Dispense With Her Inner Politician". Time.
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Categories:
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American male writers
- American male poets
- American male writers of Indian descent
- American radiologists
- Novelists from Ohio
- People from Columbus, Ohio
- Physicians from Ohio
- Poets Laureate of Ohio
- The New Yorker people
- University of Akron alumni
- Writers from Cleveland
- Northeast Ohio Medical University alumni
