Hoshang Merchant

Hoshang Merchant (* 1947 in Mumbai ) is an Indian author , poet and teacher .

Life

Merchant attended St. Xavier's College in Mumbai. He received his Masters in English from Occidental College in Los Angeles. He studied the literary fields of Renaissance and Modernism and in 1981 he received his PhD . Merchant wrote his dissertation on Anaïs Nin at Purdue University . After completing his studies, Merchant taught in Heidelberg, Jerusalem and Iran. He has lived in Hyderabad since the mid-1980s , teaching English at the University of Hyderabad . As an author, Merchant wrote 13 books of poetry and two literary reviews. Merchant is editor of the first Indian anthology with gay content: Yaraana: Gay Writing from India .

Works (selection)

poetry

• 1989: Flower to Flame , (Delhi: Rupa & Co.)
• 1989: Stone to Fruit , (Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
• 1991: Yusuf in Memphis , (Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
• 1992: Hotel Golkonda: Poems 1991 , (Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
• 1995: The Home, the Friend and the World , (Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
• 1995: Jonah and the Whale (Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
• 1996: Love's Permission , (Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
• 1996: The Heart in Hiding , (Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
• 1997: The Birdless Cage , (Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
• 1997: Talking to the Djinns , (Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
• 1999: Selected Poems , (Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
• 2004: Bellagio Blues , (Hyderabad: Otherwise Books, Spark-India)
• 2005: Homage to Jibanananda Das , (Contemporary World Poetry Series, London: Aark Arts)

Literary reviews

• 1990: In-discretions: Anais Nin , (Calcutta: Writers Workshop)
• 2008: Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts , (Delhi: Routledge)

anthology

• 1999: Yaarana: Gay Writing from India , (New Delhi: Penguin)

Web links

• Hoshang Merchant website
• Channel6 Magazine: Hoshang Merchant - The Poetry of Jalwah
• Outlook India Magazine: Sar Pe Lal Topi Parsi ...