Bhanu Kapil Explained

Bhanu Khapil
Occupation:writer
Awards:T. S. Eliot Prize (2020)

Bhanu Kapil (born 1968)[1] is a British-born poet and author of Indian descent. She is best known for her books The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (2001), Incubation: A Space for Monsters (2006), and Ban en Banlieue (2015).

In 2020, Kapil won one of eight Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes.[2]

Personal life and education

Kapil was born in 1968 outside of London[3] to Indian parents.[4] In 1990, she moved to the United States, then returned to England in 2019. She presently spends her time in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

Kapil received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loughborough University and a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from the State University of New York Brockport.

Career

Kapil's first book, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, was written in the late 1990s.[5] She has cited Salman Rushdie's 1980 Booker Prize win as a formative experience for her, saying "Perhaps then, for the first time, I understood that someone like me: could. Could look like me and write."[6] In early 2015, The Believer held a round-table discussion of her work over the course of three days.[7]

2009's Humanimal: A Project for Future Children took its inspiration from the nonfiction account of Amala and Kamala, two girls found "living with wolves in colonial Bengal."[8] Douglas A. Martin has described Incubation: A Space For Monsters as "a feminist, post-colonial On the Road."[9] Kapil also contributed the introduction to Amina Cain's short story collection I Go To Some Hollow.[10] Her public readings have elements of performance art.[11] Her poetry appeared in a collection edited by Brian Droitcour that was produced as part of the New Museum's 2015 Triennial.[12]

Aside from writing, Kapil has taught at Naropa University, as well as in Goddard College’s Master of Fine Arts program. She has also contributed and co-taught in the Master's in Leadership for Sustainability program at the University of Vermont.[13]

In 2019, Kapil received a year-long fellowship at the University of Cambridge; after the fellowship, she remained as an artist by-fellow at Churchill College. In 2022, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Awards and honours

Incubation: A Space for Monsters was a Small Press Distribution best-seller.[14] Ban en Banlieue was named one of Time Out New York's most anticipated books of early 2015.[15]

In 2019, Kapil received the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship from the University of Cambridge.[16]

In March 2020 Kapil was awarded one of eight Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes. In January 2021, she was awarded the 2020 T. S Eliot Poetry Prize for How to Wash a Heart.[17] She has also received the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors.

Publications

Books

Chapbooks

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2023-03-13 . Bhanu Kapil . 2023-03-14 . . en . 8 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180108175227/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/bhanu-kapil . live.
  2. News: Flood . Alison . 2020-03-19 . Eight authors share $1m prize as writers face coronavirus uncertainty . en-GB . . 2020-03-20 . 0261-3077 . 7 April 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200407130557/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/19/windham-campbell-literary-award-bhanu-kapil-yiyun-li-namwali-serpell-jonah-mixon-webster-anne-boyer-julia-cho-alesha-harris-maria-tumarkin-coronavirus . live.
  3. News: Parmar . Sandeep . 2021-02-17 . TS Eliot winner Bhanu Kapil: 'It's hard to study something by standing in front of it' . en-GB . . 2023-03-14 . 0261-3077 . 5 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221205164321/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/17/ts-eliot-winner-bhanu-kapil-its-hard-to-study-something-by-standing-in-front-of-it . live.
  4. Web site: About Bhanu Kapil . 2023-03-14 . . 14 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230314032509/https://poets.org/poet/bhanu-kapil . live.
  5. News: Bhanu Kapil. Sanders. Katherine. September 22, 2011. BOMB Magazine. 7 March 2015. 3 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150403040038/http://bombmagazine.org/article/6073/bhanu-kapil. live.
  6. Web site: Unfold is the wrong word: An Interview with Bhanu Kapil. April 18, 2012. HTML Giant. Saifi. Rowland. 9 March 2015. 14 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180114190837/http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/unfold-is-the-wrong-word-an-interview-with-bhanu-kapil/. live.
  7. February 18, 2015. Reading Bhanu Kapil: Day 1: In Conversation. The Believer. 10 August 2018. 11 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180811031933/https://believermag.com/logger/2015-02-17-reading-bhanu-kapil-3/. live.
  8. News: An Interview with Bhanu Kapil. Luczajko. Stephanie. Tinge Magazine. 9 March 2015. 9 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160809105530/http://www.tingemagazine.org/an-interview-with-bhanu-kapi/. live.
  9. News: Reading Bhanu Kapil. February 17, 2015. The Believer. https://web.archive.org/web/20150321015504/http://logger.believermag.com/post/111278518799/reading-bhanu-kapil. March 21, 2015. dead.
  10. Web site: I Go To Some Hollow. Les Figues Press. 7 March 2015. 3 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150203213237/http://www.lesfigues.com/book/i-go-to-some-hollow/. live.
  11. News: Reading Bhanu Kapil: Day 3: Collectively Reading Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue. February 19, 2015. The Believer. https://web.archive.org/web/20150221132803/http://logger.believermag.com/post/111472517859/reading-bhanu-kapil. February 21, 2015. dead.
  12. Web site: 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience . 2023-03-14 . . en . 7 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150307203204/http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/the-generational-triennial . live.
  13. Web site: Bhanu Kapil . 2023-03-14 . Master's in Leadership for Sustainability (MS) UVM Rubenstein School . en . 14 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230314032513/https://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/leadership-sustainability/users/bhanu-kapil . live.
  14. News: Garner . Dwight . 2008-07-20 . Inside the List . en-US . . 2023-03-14 . 0362-4331 . 21 June 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180621115915/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/books/review/InsideList-t.html . live.
  15. News: Gilbert . Tiffany . December 28, 2015 . The Most Anticipated Books of Early 2015 . Time Out New York . 7 March 2015 . 16 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150316050249/http://www.timeout.com/newyork/books/the-most-anticipated-books-of-early-2015 . live.
  16. Web site: Bhanu Kapil . 2023-03-14 . . 18 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220618054840/https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Bhanu.Kapil . live.
  17. Web site: Flood . Alison . 2021-01-24 . Bhanu Kapil wins TS Eliot poetry prize for 'radical' How to Wash a Heart . 2021-01-26 . . en . 13 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221013151107/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/24/bhanu-kapil-wins-ts-eliot-prize-for-poetry-how-to-wash-a-heart . live.

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