Abnish Singh Chauhan

Dr Abnish Singh Chauhan (1979) teaches English at SRM University, Delhi-NCR, Sonepat, Haryana. He is a bilingual poet, critic, translator and editor (Hindi and English). He has some significant books to his credit, namely: The Fictional World of Arun Joshi: Paradigm Shift in Values, Swami Vivekananda: Select Speeches, Speeches of Swami Vivekananda and Subhash Chandra Bose: A Comparative Study, William Shakespeare: King Lear, Functional Skills in Language and Literature and Functional English. His deep interest in translation prompted him to translate thirty poems of B S Gautam Anurag under the title Burns Within from Hindi into English and some poems of Paddy Martin from English into Hindi. Besides Harivansh Rai Bachchan Yuva Geetkar Samman (2013) for his Hindi poetry collection Tukada Kagaz Ka from Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan, Lucknow, U.P., he is the recipient of Pratham Kavita Samman (2011) from Kavita Kosh (www.kavitakosh.org), Book of the Year Award (2012) from the Think Club, Michigan, USA, Srajnatmak Sahitya Puraskar (2013) from Rajasthan Patrika, Jaipur, Rajasthan, Navankur Puraskar (2014) from Abhivyakti Vishwam, Sharjah, UAE, etc. He is the managing editor of a literary e-journal Creation and Criticism (English) and editor of a literary e-magazine Poorvabhas (Hindi). He can be contacted at abnishsinghchauhan@gmail.com.