Atlas
Atlas – a new international book[maga]zine of 'new writing, art and image' – is  edited by Sudeep Sen. It is published by Aark Arts (UK) and Crossword (India), and advised by a panel of internationally acclaimed prize-winning writers & editors: Peter Bradshaw, Kwame Dawes, John F Deane, Donald Hall, Girish Karnad, Christopher Merrill, Les Murray, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ruth Padel, Peter Porter, Fiona Sampson, Shashi Tharoor, Daniel Weissbort and John Hartley Williams. Apart from carrying cutting-edge original and translated creative writing – poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction; plus occasional in-depth interviews and features; it also features selected portfolios of artists, photographers and filmmakers.

The Guardian
Atlas represents the first self-styled 'bookzine' - a sturdy paperback of more than 250 pages... its primary remit is to publish contemporary Indian writing... but with contributions from Les Murray, Peter Porter, Kwame Dawes, Owen Sheers, Amit Chaudhuri, Rana Dasgupta... it is as international as its name suggests. Its contents prove enticing... making [its] mark in the margins.

Further information:
www.atlasaarkarts.zoomshare.com/

Sudeep Sen
Sudeep Sen is the 2004 recipient of the prestigious 'Pleiades' honour at the world's oldest poetry festival – the Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia – for having made 'significant contribution to modern world poetry'. Sen studied at St Columba's School and read literature at Delhi University and in the USA. As an Inlaks Scholar, he completed an MS from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York. Winner of many international and national prizes, he was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship (UK) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize (USA) for poems included in Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins). More recently, he has published Postcards from Bangladesh, Prayer Flag, Distracted Geographies, and Rain.

As an invited author representing his country, he has read his work worldwide, and has been translated into several languages including Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Malayalam, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. His poetry appears in important international anthologies published by Penguin, HarperCollins, Bloomsbury, Routledge, Norton, Knopf, Everyman, Macmillan, and Granta; and his other writings have appeared in the TLS, Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard, Financial Times, Scotsman, Herald, London Magazine, Literary Review, among others. Sen was an international poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He is the editor of Atlas, editorial director of AarK ARTS, and divides his time between New Delhi and London.

Amit Chaudhuri
'I read Rain with considerable admiration and pleasure. It is a word-perfect collection and its subject matter is both the measure of the rain and the spoken line.'

John Berger, Booker Prize Winner and author of Ways of Seeing
'Sudeep Sen's poems are a present which bring – like all true poetry – so much companionship.'

Evening Standard
'A rich, fluent, cosmopolitan voice.'

John Thieme in The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
'Sen is an eclectic poet whose understated work eschews fashionable trends, while exhibiting considerable technical virtuosity and versatility.'

Gregor Robertson on BBC Radio
'Sen is amongst the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene. A distinct voice: carefully modulated and skilled, well measured and crafted.'

Further information:
http://www.sudeepsen.net

Amal Chatterjee
Amal Chatterjee is the author of the novel Across the Lakes (Phoenix House (UK) & Penguin India, 1998), which was short-listed for the Best Fiction in English Award of Crossword (India) in 1998. The same year, Amal received a Scottish Arts Council Writers' Bursary and in 2001 he was short-listed for a Creative Scotland Award. Amal is also a historian, the author of Representations of India, 1740-1840 (Macmillan & St Martin's Press, 1998) and has lectured on both fiction and history in a number of countries and venues, including at the inaugural Wigtown Scottish Book Town launch, the Anthropological Society of India, the WA Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles, plus Leiden, Amsterdam and Edinburgh Universities. Currently a tutor on Oxford University's MSc in Creative Writing Programme, he lives in Amsterdam where he is working on his second novel, an excerpt from which was published in Atlas in 2006. 

Further information:
http://amal.tomali.net

Language: English