Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
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Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih is an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, editor, and translator. He writes in Khasi[1] and English. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, epic-length novel Funeral Nights[2][3][4][5] published by Context/Westland for India and by And Other Stories for the UK and the US.
In 2008, he received the Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah National Award[6] for Tribal Literature[7] from the Government of Madhya Pradesh.[8]
He is a Life Member of the Poetry Society of India, New Delhi,[9] and a founder member of North-East Writers’ Forum, Guwahati.[10] He is also a member of All India Tribal Literary Forum, New Delhi,[11] Muse India, Hyderabad,[12] and Khasi Authors’ Society, Shillong[13].
Life[edit]
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih[14] was born on 4 April 1964 in Sohra (Cherrapunjee)[15], East Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya[16], to Perisibon Nongkynrih and O. Surong. He belongs to the Khasi (Khynriam) tribe[17]. He was educated at Ram Krishna Mission Primary School[18], Maraikaphon[19], Sohra, and Government Boy’s High School, Shillong.[20] He completed BA[21] in English literature[22] from St. Anthony’s College[23]. He received his MA and PhD from North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU)[24], Shillong.
Career[edit]
He was an Auditor[25] in the office of the Accountant General (Audit), Shillong[26][27] from 1988 to 1990. He taught at Sankardev College, Shillong[28] from 1990 to 2001. In 1994, he became the Founder Editor[29] of Apphira Daily News[30], Shillong, and remained there till 1996. Between 1998 and 2000, he was the editor of Dongmusa[31], a weekly newspaper. He was the Deputy Director of NEHU Publications[32] and the University’s Public Relations Officer between 2001 and 2007.
He edited NEHU News[33] and was the Associate Editor of The NEHU Journal[34] between 2001 and 2007.
He has been teaching literature in the Department of English, NEHU, Shillong since 2007[35].
He received a Fellowship for Outstanding Artists 2000 from the Department of Culture and Tourism.[36] He is the recipient of North-East Poetry Award 2004[37] from the North-East India Poetry Council, Tripura and the Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah National Award for Tribal Literature from the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2008. He also received the Tagore Fellowship from IIAS, Shimla[38] in 2018, The Bangalore Review June Jazz Award in 2021[39]; and The Sparrow-R Thyagarajan Literary Award 2022[40], from SPARROW, Mumbai.
Some of his plays in Khasi, including Ka Jingngiah ïa ka Bneng (The Distaste of Heaven) or Ka Khanatang U Klew bad ka Sngi: A Khasi Musical[41] have been staged. Ki Miet ka Jingtriem (Nights of Terror), has been made into a film by State of Mind Production for Doordarshan Kendra, Shillong.[42]
Kynpham[43] has translated several children’s books from English into Khasi for the National Book Trust,[44] India, New Delhi. He has translated poetry and short stories[45] [46]from Khasi into English for Indian Literature[47] (Sahitya Akademi)[48], Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India[49][50] (Penguin[51]), Where the Sun Rises, When Shadows Fall[52] (Oxford University Press)[53], Katha anthologies[54], and others.
Selected Bibliography[edit]
- Moments: A First Collection of Poems (Writers Workshop) [55]
- The Sieve: A Collection of Love Poems[56] (Writers Workshop)
- The Season of the Wind[57] (Pine Cones Publications)[58]
- The Fungus (2008)[59] (Pine Cones Publications)
- The Yearning of Seeds (2011)[60] (HarperCollins)[61] [62]
- Time’s Barter: Haiku and Senryu[63] (2015) (HarperCollins)
- Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast (NEHU Publications)[64]
- Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India (Penguin)[49]
- Late-Blooming Cherries: Haiku Poetry from India (HarperCollins) [65][66]
- U Sier Lapalang[67] (2005, Katha) [68]
- Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends (2007, Penguin), [69][70]
- The Legend of U Thlen: A Graphic Novel (2013, Blaft Publications)[71]
- Manik: A Play in Five Acts[72] (2018, Dhauli), translated into Hindi as Manik Raitong (2023, Setu Prakashan) [73]
- Funeral Nights (Context/Westland for India, And Other Stories for the UK and the US)[74][75]
- The Distaste of the Earth (Penguin, May 2024)[76]
- A Handbook for Apphira Journalists (1994, Apphira Publications) [citation needed]
- The Story of Khasi Archery: From God-given Gift to Poetry and Dream Psychology[77] (2010, Pine Cones Publications)[78]
- Hiraeth and the Poetry of Soso Tham: A Study of the Great Unconventional Elegy and the Poetry of the Khasi National Bard [79] (2011, Ri Khasi Book Agency & North Eastern India for Indigenous Studies, Shillong)
- I Moiñ Moiñ Syiar [14] (1993, R. Khongwir) [80]
- Ki Jingkynmaw (an edited anthology of poetry, 2002, S. G. R. Lanong) [citation needed]
- Ka Samoi jong ka Lyer (2007, Pine Cones)[81]
- Ki Mawsiang ka Sohra (2007, Pine Cones Publications)[82]
- Ban Sngewthuh ïa ka Poitri (2009, Gautam Brothers & Himalaya Book Stall)[83]
- Ka Jingïapeiñ jong ka Por: Ki Haiku bad Senryu (2009, Pine Cones Publications & Ri Khasi Books Agency)[84]
- Ka Mother Teresa: Ka Kmie ki Kam Isynei (2010, Gautam Brothers & Himalaya Book Stall) [citation needed]
- Ki Miet ka Jingtriem[85] (2011, Pine Cones Publications)
- Ka Pyrkhat Niam ki Khanatang [86] (2011, Pine Cones Publications)
- Ki Kyrwoh: Ki Khana Phawer [87] (2015, Pine Cones Publications & Ri Khasi Book Agency)
- Ka Jingngiew ka Mynsiem Briew (2022, Pine Cones Publications) [citation needed]
- Ka Jingshai ha ka Miet (2023, Pine Cones) [citation needed]
See also[edit]
External Links[edit]
1. Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih (poet) - India - Poetry International[37]
2. Khasi hills and Khasi culture: Reconnection in Kynpham Sing[88]
3. Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih - Mint Lounge[89]
4. A Comparative Study of John Ashbery's Where Shall I Wander [provide link]
5. Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih - FBS UNY [provide link]
6. Funeral Nights Is an Unconventional Novel About the Khasis[5]
8. Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends - Goodreads[90]
9. Time's Barter: Haiku and Senryu - Kynpham ... - Google Books[91]
References[edit]
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- ↑ "Publisher of innovative contemporary writing". And Other Stories. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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- ↑ "Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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|title=(help) - ↑ "Culture & Heritage | East Khasi Hills | India". Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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- ↑ "Award of Senior/Junior Fellowships to Outstanding Persons in the Fields of Culture | Ministry of Culture, Government of India". Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 "Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih". www.poetryinternational.com (in Nederlands). Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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- ↑ Team, Editorial (14 June 2021). "June Jazz & 8 years of TBR". The Bangalore Review. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "Sparrow Literary Awards – SPARROW". Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "Behance". www.behance.net. September 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "KI MIET KA JINGTRIEM BYNTA 1". YouTube. 7 September 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ Nongkynrih, Kynpham Sing (2005). "Hard-edged Modernism: contemporary poetry in North-east India". India International Centre Quarterly. 32 (2/3): 39–44. JSTOR 23006006. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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|title=(help) - ↑ Nongkynrih, Kynpham Singh (2006). "The Birth Pangs of a Poet: The Early Works of Soso Tham, Chief Bard of the Khasis". Indian Literature. 5 (235): 137–151. JSTOR 23340731. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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|title=(help) - ↑ 49.0 49.1 Dancing earth: an anthology of poetry from North-East India (1. publ ed.). New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India. 2009. ISBN 978-0143102205. Search this book on
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|title=(help) - ↑ Where the sun rises when shadows fall: The North-East. New Delhi ; New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0195682816. Search this book on
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|url=value (help). Indivisible. University of Arkansas Press. pp. 146–147. Retrieved 29 March 2024. - ↑ Nongkynrih, Kynpham Singh (1992). The sieve, love poems. Calcutta, India: Writers Workshop. ISBN 9788171893584. Search this book on
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|title=(help) - ↑ Nongkynrih, Kynpham Sing. "THE FUNGUS". www.poetryinternational.com (in Nederlands). Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ Nongkynrih, Kynpham Singh (2011). The yearning of seeds: poems. Noida: Harper Collins Publishers India. ISBN 978-9350290811. Search this book on
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- ↑ Nongkynrih, Kynpham Singh (2015). Time's barter: haiku and senryu (First published in India ed.). NOIDA: HarperCollins Publishers India. ISBN 978-9350298633. Search this book on
- ↑ Anthology of contemporary poetry from the Northeast (1. impr ed.). Shillong: NEHU Publications. 2003. ISBN 9788187837060. Search this book on
- ↑ "Late-Blooming Cherries - Buy Best Poetry Books and Novels by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih". Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ Nongkynrih, Kynpham Sing; Nath, Rimi (27 April 2024). Late-Blooming Cherries: Haiku Poetry from India. Harper Collins. ISBN 9789356997295. Search this book on
- ↑ "U Sier Lapalang | A Khasi tale retold by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih | Art by Maya Ramaswamy". Medium. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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- ↑ "Around the Hearth". Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "The Obliterary Journal - Volume 2". Blaft Publications. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ Nongkynrih, Kynpham Singh (2018). Manik: a play in five acts. Bhubaneswar, Odisha: Dhauli Books. ISBN 9788193850527. Search this book on
- ↑ "Manik Raitong By Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih". SetuPrakashan.com Hindi Sahitya Books Online. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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|title=(help) - ↑ "Book review: 'Funeral Nights' by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih". India Today. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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|title=(help) - ↑ Nongkynrih, Kynpham Singh (2002). "Ka Samoi jong ka Lyer". Diengdoh. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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- ↑ Chakraborty, Sayantan (June 2020). "Khasi hills and Khasi culture: Reconnection in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih's The Yearning of Seeds". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 55 (2): 259–276. doi:10.1177/0021989418766672. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "Read Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih 's Columns/Articles on Mint Lounge". Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ↑ "Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends". Goodreads.
- ↑ Nongkynrih, Kynpham Sing (24 April 2015). Time's Barter: Haiku and Senryu. HarperCollins Publishers India. ISBN 978-93-5029-863-3. Retrieved 29 March 2024. Search this book on
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