about the author
Naji Munawar was born in 1934 in Kaprin (Shopian). He writes poetry, literary history, and children’s literature, and has discovered and compiled the work of nineteenth-century Kashmiri poets. He has also translated Sophocles and Shakespeare into Kashmiri. His volume of criticism, Pursaan, won the Sahitya Akademi award in 2002.
about the translator
Suvir Kaul is the A.M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania as well as the author of four books, including most recently Of Garden and Graves, a collection of his essays on the conflict in Kashmir as well as poems that Kaul has translated into English.
