In Conversation with Rahul Soni

Rahul Soni is a writer, editor and translator based in India.
He is Associate Publisher (Literary) at HarperCollins Publishers India. He was previously Editorial Head at Writer’s Side, a literary agency and manuscript assessment service, Associate Editor at Almost Island, a journal for literature that “threatens, confronts, or bypasses the marketplace”, and Season Coordinator at the Sangam House international writers’ residency program. He founded and, from 2008 to 2012, edited Pratilipi, a literary journal, and Pratilipi Books, an independent publishing imprint, and from 2013 to 2015 was Editor-at-Large (India) at Asymptote, an international journal of literature in translation. He was a Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in 2010 and received the Sangam House Fellowship in 2012.
His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Almost Island, Asymptote, Biblio, Dhauli Review, Hindi, Indian Literature, La Hoja de Arena, Out of Print Magazine, PIX: A Photography Quarterly, Poetry at Sangam, Poetry International Web, Pratilipi, Recours au Poème, Tehelka, The Four Quarters Magazine, The Indian Quarterly and other venues. He edited the anthology of Hindi Poetry in English translation, Home from a Distance (Pratilipi Books, 2011), and translated Shrikant Verma’s collection of poetry, Magadh (Almost Island Books, 2013), Geetanjali Shree’s novel The Roof Beneath Their Feet (HarperCollins, 2013), a selection of Ashok Vajpeyi’s poetry A Name for Every Leaf (HarperCollins, 2016), and the renowned actor Pankaj Kapur’s novella Dopheri (HarperCollins, 2019).
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