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Poet-critic-translator-Director Choreographer Vyomesh Shukla was born in 1980, in Banaras.
He has translated the works of Noam Chomsky, Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton, Edward Said and also the works of Mahasweta Devi and K. Satchidanandan. Two books of poetry by him are published. He received the 'Ankur Mishra Memorial Award' in 2008 and the 'Bharat Bhushan Agrawal Memorial Award' in 2009 for poetry, 'Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad, Kolkata's Jan Kalyan Samman' for cultural work. Recently, he has been given the 'Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar' of the Sangeet Natak Akademi for theatre direction.
He is the recipient of the Raza Fellowship (2013) for his book/ project on eminent Hindi poet Srikant Verma.