Dr. Kanwar Dinesh Singh is an eminent poet, scholar and a literary critic. He was awarded the ‘Sahitya Akademi Award’ by the Government of Himachal Pradesh for his poetry book House Arrest (2000) and the ‘Acharya Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi Samman’ for his book of Hindi poems entitled Put-bhed (2003). He is the author of Feminism and Postfeminism: The Context of Modern Indian Women Poets Writing in English, Contemporary Indian English Poetry: Comparing Male & Female Voices and New Explorations in Indian English Poetry. He has also co-authored INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: A Critical Casebook. His poems, reviews and articles have appeared in several leading newspapers, journals and magazines including The Indian Express, The Hindustan Times, National Herald, New Quest, Poetry Today, Journal of Indian Writing in English, Poet, Poetcrit, Continuum, The Quest, Indo-Asian Literature, Indian Book Chronicle, Art and Poetry Today, Heaven, Metverse Muse, The Brain Wave, Bridge-in-Making, Canopy, Kafla, World Poetry, Wanderlust. Dr. Singh presently teaches at Government College, Sanjauli, Shimla as a Senior Lecturer in English. He is an Academic Counsellor for the various programmes in English language & literature of the Indira Gandhi National Open University and an Associate of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla. He edits Litcrit India – a journal of creative and critical writing in English and hyphen – a monthly of contemporary thought and human values.
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