Geet Chaturvedi

Geet Chaturvedi is a Hindi poet, short story author, and novelist. Often regarded as an avant-garde writer, he was awarded the Bharat Bhushan Agrawal Award for poetry in 2007 and Krishna Pratap Award for Fiction in 2014. His novel 'Simsim', translated into English by Anita Gopalan, was longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023 and also won the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants. He lives in Bhopal, India. He is active both as a fiction writer and critic. In 2011, The Indian Express included him in a list of the 'Ten Best Writers' of India. His poems have been translated into 22 languages. His book of essays 'The Master of Unfinished Things' was included in the list of '75 notable translations worldwide' in 2025 by World Literature Today.