Ranjit Hoskote

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ranjit Hoskote
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Mar 29, 1969(1969-03-29)
Age	55
Birthplace	Mumbai
Country	India
Birth City	Maharashtra
Horoscope	Aries

Ranjit Hoskote Biography

Ranjit Hoskote is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on March 29, 1969 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

As a literary organiser, Hoskote has been associated with the PEN All-India Centre, the Indian branch of International PEN, since 1986, and is currently its general secretary, as well as Editor of its journal, Penumbra. He has also been associated with the Poetry Circle Bombay since 1986, and was its President from 1992 to 1997.

In a series of essays, papers and articles published from the late 1990s onward, Hoskote has reflected on the theme of the asymmetry between a ‘West’ that enjoys economic, military and epistemological supremacy and an ‘East’ that is the subject of sanction, invasion and misrepresentation. In some of these writings, he dwells on the historic fate of the “House of Islam” as viewed from the West and from India, in an epoch “dominated by the NATO cosmology” while in others, he retrieves historic occasions of successful cultural confluence, when disparate belief systems and ethnicities have come together into a fruitful and sophisticated hybridity.

Ranjit Hoskote Net Worth

Ranjit Hoskote is one of the richest Poet from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ranjit Hoskote 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ranjit Hoskote (born 29 March 1969) is a contemporary Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. He was honoured with Sahitya Akademi Award for life time achievement in 2004.

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The critic Bruce King writes of Hoskote’s early work in his influential Modern Indian Poetry in English (revised edition: Oxford, 2001): “Hoskote has an historical sense, is influenced by the surreal, experiments with metrics and has a complex sense of the political… An art critic, he makes much use of landscapes, the sky and allusions to paintings. His main theme… is life as intricate, complicated, revolutionary movements in time… We live in a world of flux which requires violence for liberation, but history shows that violence itself turns into oppression and death.” Reviewing Hoskote’s first book of poems, Zones of Assault, in 1991 for India Today, the poet Agha Shahid Ali wrote: “Hoskote wants to discover language, as one would a new chemical in a laboratory experiment. This sense of linguistic play, usually missing from subcontinental poetry in English, is abundant in Hoskote’s work.” A decade later, reviewing Hoskote’s third volume, The Sleepwalker’s Archive, for The Hindu in 2001, the poet and critic Keki Daruwalla wrote: “It is the way he hangs on to a metaphor, and the subtlety with which he does it, that draws my admiration (not to mention envy)… Hoskote’s poems bear the ‘watermark of fable’: behind each cluster of images, a story; behind each story, a parable. I haven’t read a better poetry volume in years.”

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Renaud Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Ranjit Hoskote celebrates birthday on March 29 of every year.

In 2006, the prestigious literary imprint Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich launched its new poetry series, Edition Lyrik Kabinett, with a German translation of Hoskote’s poems, Die Ankunft der Vögel, rendered by the poet Jürgen Brocan. The other two volumes in the series, which was launched at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, were by the renowned American poet Charles Simic and the noted German poet Christoph Meckel.