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Dr. Mamta G. Sagar. 619, 7 th cross, 1 st main, BEML layout 4 th stage, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore 560098 [email protected] Phone: (Res) 91 80 2860 8700, (Office) 91 80 2296 1687, (Mobile) +91 94 80 58 44 64 MAMTA G. SAGAR Brief intro: Mamta Sagar is a poet/playwright writing in Kannada language spoken in Karnataka, the Southern Indian State. Genres attempted: poetry, performance poetry, plays, short prose, column writing, essays, academic writings, criticisms, art reviews, journalistic writings, translations from and into Kannada language. Poetry Festivals attended: on invitation she has participated and presented poems at poetry festivals such as Struga Poetry Evenings- Macedonia (2012), MAKARANDA Poetry Festival- Sir Lanka (2012), The International Poetry and Literature Festivals- Vietnam (2010 and 2012), The International Translation workshop and poetry festival-Slovenia (2010), Granada International Poetry Festival-Nicaragua(2010), XVIII International Poetry Festival of Medellin-Colombia (2008), 5th International Congress “Defending Cultural Diversity”, Havana-Cuba (2007), Poetry Africa-South Africa (2005) and South Asian Literary Association International Conference, San Diego, USA (2003). Mamta was invited for the Kolkata Literary Meet 2013, by the Instituto Cervantes Nueva Delhi for reading and interaction with Noni Benegas, poet from Argentina, New Delhi 2012, poetry reading and pannel discussion ‘Body & Biography’ @ LEKHANA a festival of literature, Bangalore 2012, Hyderabad Literary Festival, Hyderabad 2012, Bangalore Literature Festival 2012, Samanvaya IHC Indian Languages Festival 2012, Hyderabad Literature Festival, Lekhana- Multilingual Literary Weekend 2012 etc. Publications: Mamta Sagar has three collections of poems, four plays, an anthology of column writing, a collection of essays and a booklet on Slovenian-Kannada Literature Interactions to her credit. Her poems are translated into many Indian languages including English apart from Spanish, French, Vietnamese, Galician, Maltese, Japanese, Chinese, Slovenian, Serbian, Russian, Cebuano and are published in those respective languages. She has collaborated/performed in ‘MOTHERLAND’, with artists N.Pushpamala (India), with musicians Manja Ristic, Igor Stangliczky and Marko Jevtid (Belgrade). ‘Emily Dickenson project’ with Jannet and Jennifer (Australia), and poets Marjorie Evasco (Philippines) and Que Mai (Vietnam). She was invited as ‘Poet in Residence’ to Belgrade, Serbia by AUROPOLIS, an Association of Multimedia Artists. Motherland' with Pushpamala

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Mamta Sagar, an Indian poet and playwright writing in Kannada language has three collections of poems, four plays, an anthology of column writing, a collection of a collection of essays in Kannada and English on Gender, Language, Literature and Culture and a booklet on Slovenian-Kannada Literature Interactions to her credit. She was invited as ‘Poet in Residence’ to Belgrade, Serbia by AUROPOLIS, an Association of Multimedia Artists. Mamta has participated and presented poems at Kolkata Literary Meet 2013, Bangalore Literature Festival 2012, Samanvaya IHC Indian Languages Festival 2012, Hyderabad Literature Festival, Lekhana- Multilingual Literary Weekend 2012, poetry festivals in Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Colombia, Cuba, South Africa, Nicaragua, Slovenia, Serbia and Macedonia. Her poems are translated into Indian and many foreign languages including Sinhalese, Vietnamese, Galician, Maltese, Spanish, Slovenian, Serbian, Macedonian, Chinese, Japanese, Cebuano etc and are published in those respective languages. She has collaborated/performed in ‘MOTHERLAND’, with artists N.Pushpamala (India), ‘Emily Dickenson project’ with Jannet and Jennifer (Australia), with poets Marjorie Evasco (Philippines) and Que Mai (Vietnam) and musicians Manja Ristic, Igor Stangliczky and Marko Jevtić (Belgrade). Mamta has conducted poetry workshops for schools in Durban, South Africa(2005) and at the Rangashankara Theatre festival 2007, Bangalore and a theatre workshop for young girls from economically backward communities in Hyderabad. Her article, “Sexism and Language” is included in ‘Battleground: Women, Gender and Sexuality’ edited by Amy Lind. Greenwood Publishers, USA. 2007. Articles and poetry around gender sensitivity by Mamta Sagar are showcased in ‘Agenda’, Empowering Women for Gender Equality, journal No. 69, South Africa. Routes-‘Moving Worlds’ A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Vol 2, Issue One, University of Leeds-UK. South Asian Studies News Letter-IOWA, Spring. ‘TOMAS’, The Literary Journal, published by Centre for Creative Writing and Studies, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines Issue 10. SAMYUKTA- A Journal of Women Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. URDHVA MULA: An Inter-disciplinary Journal focusing on Women and Related Issues, Mumbai. Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in India, Mumbai. British Council’s Website on Women Writing, the websites like Poetry International, etc. Dr. Mamta G Sagar teaches at the Centre for Kannada Studies, Bangalore University and lives in Bangalore.

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Dr. Mamta G. Sagar. 619, 7th

cross, 1st

main, BEML layout 4th

stage, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore 560098

[email protected] Phone: (Res) 91 80 2860 8700, (Office) 91 80 2296 1687, (Mobile) +91 94 80 58 44 64

MAMTA G. SAGAR

Brief intro: Mamta Sagar is a poet/playwright writing in Kannada

language spoken in Karnataka, the Southern Indian State.

Genres attempted: poetry, performance poetry, plays, short

prose, column writing, essays, academic writings, criticisms,

art reviews, journalistic writings, translations from and into

Kannada language.

Poetry Festivals attended: on invitation she has participated and

presented poems at poetry festivals such as Struga Poetry

Evenings- Macedonia (2012), MAKARANDA Poetry Festival- Sir

Lanka (2012), The International Poetry and Literature Festivals-

Vietnam (2010 and 2012), The International Translation

workshop and poetry festival-Slovenia (2010), Granada International Poetry Festival-Nicaragua(2010),

XVIII International Poetry Festival of Medellin-Colombia (2008), 5th International Congress “Defending

Cultural Diversity”, Havana-Cuba (2007), Poetry Africa-South Africa (2005) and South Asian Literary

Association International Conference, San Diego, USA (2003). Mamta was invited for the Kolkata Literary

Meet 2013, by the Instituto Cervantes Nueva Delhi for reading and interaction with Noni Benegas, poet

from Argentina, New Delhi 2012, poetry reading and pannel discussion ‘Body & Biography’ @ LEKHANA

a festival of literature, Bangalore 2012, Hyderabad Literary Festival, Hyderabad 2012, Bangalore

Literature Festival 2012, Samanvaya IHC Indian Languages Festival 2012, Hyderabad Literature

Festival, Lekhana- Multilingual Literary Weekend 2012 etc.

Publications: Mamta Sagar has three collections of poems, four plays, an anthology of column writing, a

collection of essays and a booklet on Slovenian-Kannada Literature Interactions to her credit. Her poems

are translated into many Indian languages

including English apart from Spanish, French,

Vietnamese, Galician, Maltese, Japanese, Chinese,

Slovenian, Serbian, Russian, Cebuano and are

published in those respective languages. She has

collaborated/performed in ‘MOTHERLAND’, with

artists N.Pushpamala (India), with musicians

Manja Ristic, Igor Stangliczky and Marko

Jevtid (Belgrade). ‘Emily Dickenson project’ with

Jannet and Jennifer (Australia), and poets Marjorie

Evasco (Philippines) and Que Mai (Vietnam). She

was invited as ‘Poet in Residence’ to Belgrade,

Serbia by AUROPOLIS, an Association of

Multimedia Artists. ‘Motherland' with Pushpamala

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Dr. Mamta G. Sagar. 619, 7th

cross, 1st

main, BEML layout 4th

stage, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore 560098

[email protected] Phone: (Res) 91 80 2860 8700, (Office) 91 80 2296 1687, (Mobile) +91 94 80 58 44 64

She has conducted poetry workshops for two schools in Durban, South Africa (2005) and at

Rangashankara Theatre festival 2007, Bangalore and a theatre workshop for young girls from

economically backward communities in Hyderabad.

“Purdah”, a play script in Urdu, evolved during this workshop was staged at AKKA’ National Theatre

Festival for Women, Rangayana, Mysore, 2001. She has curated international poetry events in

Hyderabad and Bangalore by inviting poets from Senegal, England, Malta, Germany and Slovenia. Poets

from different Indian languages have participated in the national poetry events curated by Mamta.

Mamta Sagar’s poems are showcased in ‘Babelia En Galego’, an anthology of poems by seven poets

edited and translated into Galician by Yolanda Castaño, Galicia. 2011 ‘Beyond Barriers, Slovenian-

Kannada Literature Interactions, ed. and compiled by Mamta Sagar, Bangalore. 2011,

International Literature Festival and the poetry translation workshop, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2010

‘119 Web Streaming Poetry’ edited by Tzveta Sofronieva, Serbia. 2011 “Interior Decorations” 2010,

Poetry magazine pick up issue of the WHO. Re-registration translation of selected poems by Xi

Chuan, Biejing, China 2010, “World Poetry almanac 2008”, ed. Hadaa Sendoo, Mangolia. 2008,

Featured as Kannada Poet, Playwright and academic on ‘Poetry International’, website, 2009. “Growing

Up As A Woman Writer”, ed. Jain, Jasbir. Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. 2007, “An Evening of Poetry”,

Catalogue designed and produced as part of a multilingual poetry event curated in collaboration with

Alliance Francaise Hyderabad and Book Section of the French Embassy in India, Hyderabad, India. Dec

2007. “Sexism and Language” in ‘Battleground: Women, Gender and Sexuality’ edited by Amy Lind.

Greenwood Publishers, USA. 2007, ‘Agenda’, Empowering Women for Gender Equality, journal No. 69,

September 2006 South Africa. Routes-‘Moving Worlds’ A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Vol 2, Issue

One, 2002, University of Leeds-UK. South Asian Studies News Letter-IOWA, Spring 2002. ‘TOMAS’, The

Literary Journal, published by Centre for Creative Writing and Studies, University of Santo Tomas,

Manila, Philippines Issue 10, March 2006. SAMYUKTA- A Journal of Women Studies,

Thiruvananthapuram. URDHVA MULA: An Inter-disciplinary Journal focusing on Women andRelated

Issues, Mumbai. British Council’s Website on Women Writing, ‘Kerala Kavitha 2000’ edited by Dr. K.

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Dr. Mamta G. Sagar. 619, 7th

cross, 1st

main, BEML layout 4th

stage, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore 560098

[email protected] Phone: (Res) 91 80 2860 8700, (Office) 91 80 2296 1687, (Mobile) +91 94 80 58 44 64

Ayyappa Panikkar, January 2000, Calicut. INDIAN LITERATURE, journal published by the Academy of

Letters, New Delhi. Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in India, Mumbai etc. carries her articles,

poems in translations and her works of translation from Kannada literature and culture. As part of the

Fifth Anniversary of the World Poetry Gala Celebrations, her poems in Kannada original along with

translations in English were displayed at the Vancouver Public Library, (Central branch) 350 West

Georgia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, February 2006. Her poems in English translation is published in the

anthology, “In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself - Volume 7” edited by Marlow Peerse

Weaver and published by MW Enterprises, USA. Her poems in Kannada along with their translation in

English is included in an anthology of Women of Color Poets edited by Nagueyalti Warren and published

by The Africa World Press and were on display at the World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya 20-25, Jan

2007.

with the Nicaraguan poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal, Medellin International Poetry Festival, 2008

Grananda Poetry Festival-Nicaragua, 2010

Translation Activity:

1. Invited by the Literature Across Frontiers International Poetry Translation Workshop Shantiniketan

and Kolkata where Mamta Sagar’s poems were translated into Estonian, English and Bengali and the

poet translated poems by the Estonian poet Doris Kareva, English poets Sampurna Chatterjee and

Kathryn Gray and Bengali poets nilanjan and Binayak into Kannada, 2013

2. Translated Emily Dickenson’s poem 870 into Kannada for the ‘Emily Dickenson project’, 2011

3. Translated SEEMANTHA’, short story in Kannada by Nagaveni into English for the British Council’s

Website on Women Writing.

4. Translated poems by the Tirumalamba, first woman poet among the early modern Kannada writers

into English.

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Dr. Mamta G. Sagar. 619, 7th

cross, 1st

main, BEML layout 4th

stage, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore 560098

[email protected] Phone: (Res) 91 80 2860 8700, (Office) 91 80 2296 1687, (Mobile) +91 94 80 58 44 64

5. Translated poems by Slovenian poets Brane Mozetic and Veronika Dintinjana and Slovenian Short

story writers Andrej Blatnik and Suzana Tratnik into Kannada for the book, ‘Slovenian-Kannada

Literature Interactions’ edited by her for Centre for Slovenian Literature, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011.

6. At The International Poetry Translation Workshop - small and big languages, organised by Center for

Slovenian Literature in collaboration with Literature Across Frontiers Slovenia 2010, Mamta has

translated poems by poets from six languages: Antoine Cassar (Malta), Stanislav Lvovsky (Russia),

Veronika Dintinjana (Slovenia), Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (Japan), Yolanda Castano (Spain, Galicia) and Xi

Chuan (China); into Kannada, while her poems in Kannada were translated into all these languages.

7. Translated many passages into Kannada for Tim Supples’s production of Shakespeare’s play ‘A

Midsummer Nights Dream’, 2008.

8. She has translated poems from Cebuano language by the Marjorie Evasco, poet from Philippines

into Kannada.

9. She has translated contemporary African and Francophonic poetry into Kannada language.

10. English translations of poems by contemporary women poets from Kannada are extensively used in

her own articles and critical writings on gender.

11. English and Kannada translations of poems by contemporary women poets from Hindi language are

used in her own articles and critical writings.

12. Translated poems from collection HODYA by Marathi poet Hemantha Jogalekar into Kannada.

13. She has translated many poetry, prose and critical writings from Kannada language into English.

Mamta is interviewed and included in the documentary, ‘Cultures of Resistance’ directed by Iara Lee.

Her poetry and interviews are showcased in ‘Los Chicos de Mañana’ a documentary directed by Javier

Monero for Flying cat Productions, Spain.

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Dr. Mamta G. Sagar. 619, 7th

cross, 1st

main, BEML layout 4th

stage, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, Bangalore 560098

[email protected] Phone: (Res) 91 80 2860 8700, (Office) 91 80 2296 1687, (Mobile) +91 94 80 58 44 64

She has conducted theatre and poetry workshops culminating with readings and productions for

women, children and people from marginalised communities. Her poems are subscribed for Kannada

text books from Jain University, Bangalore. Some of her poems are composed with music by known

musicians.

She was invited by the Association of Multimedia Artists, the AUROPILIS as Poet in Residence to

Belgrade, Serbia 2012. Mamta has been on the jury of Sahithya Academu Yuva Puraskar 2012 in

Kannada.

POETRY AFRICA 2005, Durban, South Africa

Her doctoral work is in Comparative Literature from University of Hyderabad and the thesis is titled as

“Gender, Patriarchy and Resistance: Contemporary Women’s Poetry in Kannada and Hindi (1980-2000)”.

With a specialization in Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Kannada Literature and Cultural

Discourse, she has presented papers in important national and international seminars and conferences.

Dr. Mamta G. Sagar teaches at the Centre for Kannada Studies, Jnana Bharathi Campus, Bangalore

University and lives in Bangalore, India.

Links to some videos:

1. Reading @ the VI festival de Poesía, Granada Nicaragua 2010.

2. Granada International Poetry Festival 2010.

3. Reading @ the closing ceremony of the Medellin International Poetry Festival 2008, Colombia,

South America.

4. Medellin International Poetry Festival, Colombia, 2008.

5. Asia Pacific Poetry Festival, Vietnam 2012.

6. KAVYA POORNIMA, organised by the TARALABALU KENDRA, RT NAGAR, Bangalore. 7th April 2012.