2022 dialogues
August 19–21, India International Centre, New Delhi
With participating writers S. Anand reading Namdeo Dhasal, Raúl Zurita, Sharmistha Mohanty, Anna Deeny Morales, Kristin Dykstra , Aishwarya Iyer, Balam Rodrigo
evening readings
6:30 pm, India International Centre Annexe
Friday, Aug. 19
Aishwarya Iyer, Anna Deeny Morales, Kristin Dykstra
Saturday, Aug. 20
S. Anand reading Namdeo Dhasal, Raúl Zurita, Anna Deeny Morales
Sunday, Aug. 21
Balam Rodrigo, Raúl Zurita, Sharmistha Mohanty, Anna Deeny Morales
discussions
10 am-1 pm, India Interntional Centre
Saturday, Aug. 20
"Attention to the presence of landscape in Latin American poetry of the first half of the last century has evolved in such a way that it comes to express the full range of human emotions, linking geography and history into a single expression."
-From Raul Zurita's introduction to Pinholes in the Night, an anthology of Essential Poems from America.
Participants: All participating Latin American poets and the translators
Moderator: Anna Deeny Morales
Sunday, Aug. 21
An open session during which the Indian and Latin American poets can ask questions of each other and their work, its contexts and cultural backgrounds.
Moderator: Sharmistha Mohanty
The Almost Island Dialogues began as a natural extension of the journal. It is a very intimate gathering where writers can talk at length on craft, form, their different cultural contexts. The writers who are invited for these Dialogues span several continents, they have spoken in many languages, with the help of interpreters. They were chosen because we deeply admired their work, their singularity. Almost always we knew the work well. We were not concerned with their fame or lack of it, we invited those we admired. We have been called the "anti-festival", but the intention was to only be what we are.
editions
2019 | Dec. 6–8 | BIC, Bangalore
with Zoë Wicomb, Togara Muzanenhamo, I. Allan Sealy, Michael Kelleher, Jayant Kaikini, Joy Goswami, Vivek Shanbhag, Sharmistha Mohanty
2018 | Dec. 22–23 | IIC, Delhi
With Ari Sitas, Mani Rao, Subhro Bandhopadhyay, Rahul Soni, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty
2017 | Dec. 16–17 | IIC, Delhi
with Bei Dao, Mohammed Bennis, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Manglesh Dabral, Sergio Chejfec, I. Allan Sealy, Joy Goswami, Emily Sun, Jared Stark, Magaret Carson, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty
2015 | Feb. 13–15 | IIC, Delhi
with Raul Zurita, Joy Goswami, Kutti Revathy, K. Satchidanandan, Anna Deeny Morales, Bahauddin Dagar, Parvathy Baul, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty
2013 | Dec. 19–22 | IIC, Delhi
with Xi Chuan, Bahauddin Dagar, Renee Gladman, László Krasznahorkai, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Ashis Nandy, Sharmistha Mohanty, Rahul Soni
2011 India-China | Dec. 19–21 | Jnanapravaha, Mumbai
with Bei Dao, Adil Jussawalla, Irwin Allan Sealy, Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, Han Shaogong, K. Satchidanandan, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Ge Fei, Ashis Nandy, Li Tuo, Lydia Liu, Yourou Zhong, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty
2011 | Mar. 11–13 | IIC, Delhi
with Forrest Gander, Vahni Capildeo, George Szirtes, Irwin Allan Sealy, Rahul Soni, Giriraj Kiradoo, the Cybermohalla Collective, Charu Nivedita, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty
2010 | Mar. 18–21 | IIC, Delhi
with Tomasz Salamun, Vahni Capildeo, Eliot Weinberger, Joy Goswami, Xu Xi, Anita Agnihotri, Charu Nivedita, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty
2009 | Feb. 12–15 | IIC, Delhi
with Ashis Nandy, Kunwar Narain, Bei Dao, Joy Goswami, Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, Ge Fei, Zhai Yongming, K. Satchidanandan, Li Tuo, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Irwin Allan Sealy, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty
2008 | Mar. 6–9 | IIC, Delhi
with Claudio Magris, Bei Dao, George Szirtes, Udayan Vajpeyi, Irwin Allan Sealy, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Mani Kaul, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty
2006 | Dec. 15–17 | IIC, Delhi
with Irwin Allan Sealy, George Szirtes, Mani Kaul, Mariko Nagai, K. Satchidanandan, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Arvind Mehrotra, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty
