Yuyutsu Sharma is one of the few poets in the world who make their living with poetry.
Named as “The world-renowned Himalayan poet,” (The Guardian) “One-Man Academy”
(The Kathmandu Post) and “Himalayan Neruda” (Michael Graves, Brand Called You),
Punjab-born, Indian poet Yuyutsu is a vibrant force on the world poetry stage.
He is also recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland
Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of
Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch
Literature.
Author of eleven poetry collections, most recently, Lost Horoscope, he has read his
works at several prestigious places and held workshops in creative writing and
translation at Heidelberg University, University of Ottawa, Seamus Heaney Centre,
Queens University, Belfast, The Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin, Rubin Museum, New York,
Beijing Open University, New York University and Columbia University, New York.
Yuyutsu was at the Poetry Parnassus Festival organized to celebrate the London
Olympics 2012 where he represented Nepal and India. In 2020, his work was
showcased at Royal Kew Gardens in an Exhibit, “Travel the World at Kew.”
Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts creative writing
workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the
Himalayas when back home.
Yuyutsu’s memoir, Not of Flesh and Bones is forthcoming in 2025. Currently, he edits
Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing.
More: www.yuyutsusharma.com