Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist and curator. His seven collections of poetry include Vanishing Acts (Penguin, 2006), Central Time (Penguin/ Viking, 2014), Jonahwhale (Penguin/ Hamish Hamilton, 2018), and The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (Arc, 2020). His translation of a celebrated 14th-century Kashmiri woman saint’s poetry has appeared as I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (Penguin Classics, 2011). He is the editor of Dom Moraes: Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics, 2012). Hoskote curated India’s first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale(2011) and has curated the lifetime or mid-career retrospectives of several major artists, including Jehangir Sabavala, Atul Dodiya, Sakti Burman, and Jogen Chowdhury. He has been honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award, the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award, the S H Raza Literature Award, and the Sanskriti Award for Literature. Hoskote’s poems have been translated into German, Hindi, Swedish, Spanish, and Arabic.