Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Baidar Bakht:: Translator of Urdu Poetry par excellence

 













BAIDAR BAKHT is Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering at the Universities of Toronto and Manitoba, Canada. He translates modern Urdu poetry into English in collaboration with Canadian poets and scholars of English. He lives in Toronto, Canada.


His translations of Jayant's poetry have appeared in Indian Literature 252:July-August 2009 p73-88.


He has also translated Gopi Chand Narang's article on Jayant  which has appeared in the same issue p 60-72.
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