Hemang Ashwinkumar
Central University of Gujarat, English and Foreign Languages University, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, University Grants Commission
0009-0000-4382-1106
About
Hemang Ashwinkumar (1978 - ) is a bilingual poet, fiction writer, translator, editor and critic who writes in Gujarati and English. His works have been translated into Greek, Italian and other Indian languages. His English translations include Poetic Refractions (2012), an anthology of contemporary Gujarati poetry, and Thirsty Fish and Other Stories (2013), an anthology of select stories by eminent Gujarati writer Sundaram. Penguin Random House, India has brought out his translation of Gujarati Dalit writer Dalpat Chauhan’s novel Vultures (2022), and edited collection of short stories titled Fear and Other Stories (2023). His Gujarati translations of Arun Kolatkar’s Kala Ghoda Poems (2004), Sarpa Satra (2021) and Jejuri (2024) have been critically acclaimed. He received New India Foundation’s Translation Fellowship in 2024 to translate Jivannu Parodh, the memoir of Prabhudas Gandhi, M. K. Gandhi’s grandnephew, which has recently appeared as The Dawn of Life (2025), from Penguin India. His forthcoming books include Home Without Windows (2026 Juggernaut Books), a translated memoir of Gujarati Dalit writer Chandu Maheria, Translating the Translated: Poetics and Politics of Literary Translation in India (2026 Orient Blackswan), a scholarly monograph and On the Way Home (Seagull Books), English translation of eminent painter-poet Gulammohammed Sheikh’s collection of autobiographical essays. Hemang was a Writer-in-Residence at The Sangam House, Bangalore in 2025.
Employment
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Central University of Gujarat2023 - Present
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English and Foreign Languages University Associate Professor2021 - 2022
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University Grants Commission Education Officer2013 - 2017
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Natubhai V Patel College of Pure and Applied Sciences Head of Department2007 - 2013
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G M Bilakhia College of Applied Sciences Assistant Professor2000 - 2007
Education
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Veer Narmad South Gujarat University Ph.D2003 - 2006
Projects & Funding
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Publications (11)
- In Search of Sundaram: Of Cultural Translation and Literary Historiography Save
- Addressing imagined immunities: the Dawn of life at phoenix settlement in South Africa Save
- The Dawn of Life Save
- Of home and exile: framing nation and its fragments in translation Save
- Historicizing the Bard of Avon: Shakeshifting Shakespeare and the Constitution of Guarati Literary Culture Save
- Of minority and multiplicity: translation in the eco- civilisational sphere Save
- Revisiting Ideology in English Language Teaching: Towards Pedagogies of Decolonization Save
- Cast(e) in ‘Other’ Mold: Agency and Anxiety in Translation of Dalit Literature Save
- Fear and Other Stories Save
- Indian ‘Turn’ in Translation Theory: A Paradigm Shift? Save