Lucy Rosenstein
Lucy Rosenstein did her MA in Indology at Sofia University (Bulgaria) and came to SOAS to further her knowledge of Hindi in 1991 by doing an MA and a PhD in Hindi.
While her early research focused on issues of comparative linguistics and textual criticism, her later work moved away from classical philology and embraced literary studies. She did her PhD on Braj Bhasha verse but since 1997 she has been working on contemporary Hindi poetry. This shift in interest is reflected in the books she has published so far: Swami Haridas and the Haridasi sampradaya: A study of early Braj Bhasha verse (Egbert Forsten 1997) and Nayi Kavita 'New Poetry' in Hindi: An Anthology (Permanent Black 2003).
For the last few years she has been particularly interested in gender issues and translation. She has published numerous articles on and translations of women's poetry in Hindi. Her current ambition is to persuade a publisher that poetry is worth publishing and to bring out an annotated anthology of women's poetry in Hindi.
Poems translated by Lucy Rosenstein
- In the Stillness of a Word
- To the Lost Children
- The Photograph
- Every Love
- Eclipse
- Deep in the Stillness
- As the Past Approaches
- A Standard Shirt
- Ants
- The Evening News and the Roof of the World
- The Blue-Eyed Blackbird
- Kanjika: Some Lamentations 3
- Child, Go Home
- Mourning Kanjikaa
- In Your Own Words
- The Washerman
- Kanjika: Some Lamentations 2
- The Morning Post
- The Poet’s Fate
- Fish
- You Will Turn in Your Sleep
- Another Word for It
- Just a Little Hope Is Needed
- Mountain Child
- The Colour of Water
- After Midnight
- You Will Say Night
- The Cartographer
- It Happens Again
- Not What the Words…
- Did You Hear It Too?
- Only for a Day
- An Obsessive Tune