K. Satchidanandan is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, travel writer, editor and social and literary critic in Malayalam/English with well over 70 original works and 30 books of translations of poetry from across the world. He was a Professor of English in Kerala, Editor, Indian Literature, Chief Executive, Sahitya Akademi and Professor and Director, Translation Studies and Training, IGNOU, Delhi. He has read his poetry and lectured in more than 30 countries in six continents and won 51 awards and Fellowships including the Sahitya Akademi Award, The Poet Laureate Award from Tata Litfest, Knighthood from the Govt of Italy, India-Poland Friendship Medal and Dante Medal from Ravenna. Satchidanandan has 32 collections of poems in 18 languages including Arabic, German, French, Italian, English, Irish, Chinese and Japanese besides all major Indian languages. His latest works in English are While I Write ( Selected Poems, Harper Collins) The Misplaced Objects and Other Poems ( Sahitya Akademi, Delhi), The Missing Rib ( Collected Poems 1973-2015), Not Only the Oceans ( both from Poetrywala, Bombay) Positions ( Essays on Indian Literature ( Niyogi Books, Delhi), Words Matter: Writings Against Silence ( Essays), Singing in the Dark: A Global Anthology of Poetry Under LockDown, both edited, pub. Penguin-Random House).