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Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih is an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, editor, and translator. He writes in Khasi[1] and English. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, epic-length novel Funeral Nights[2][3][4][5] published by Context/Westland for India and And Other Stories for the UK and the US.

In 2008, he received the Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah National Award[6] for Tribal Literature[7] from the Government of Madhya Pradesh.[8]

He is a Life Member of the Poetry Society of India[9], New Delhi, and a founder member of North-East Writers’ Forum,[10] Guwahati. He is also a member of All India Tribal Literary Forum[11], New Delhi, Muse India[12], Hyderabad, and Khasi Authors’ Society, Shillong[13].

Contents

1 Life

2 Career

3 Selected Bibliography

4 See also

5 References

6 External links

Life

Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih[14] was born on 4 April 1964 in Sohra (Cherrapunjee)[15], East Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya[16], to Perisibon Nongkynrih and O. Surong. He belongs to the Khasi (Khynriam) tribe[17]. He was educated at Ram Krishna Mission Primary School[18], Maraikaphon[19], Sohra, and Government Boy’s High School, Shillong.[20] He completed BA[21] in English literature[22] from St. Anthony’s College[23]. He received his MA and PhD from North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU)[24], Shillong.

Career

He was an Auditor[25] in the office of the Accountant General (Audit), Shillong[26][27] from 1988 to 1990. He taught at Sankardev College, Shillong[28] from 1990 to 2001. In 1994, he became the Founder Editor[29] of Apphira Daily News[30], Shillong, and remained there till 1996. Between 1998 and 2000, he was the editor of Dongmusa[31], a weekly newspaper. He was the Deputy Director of NEHU Publications[32] and the University’s Public Relations Officer between 2001 and 2007.

He edited NEHU News[33] and was the Associate Editor of The NEHU Journal[34] between 2001 and 2007.

He has been teaching literature in the Department of English, NEHU, Shillong since 2007[35].

He received a Fellowship for Outstanding Artists 2000 from the Department of Culture and Tourism.[36] He is the recipient of North-East Poetry Award 2004[37] from the North-East India Poetry Council, Tripura and the Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah National Award for Tribal Literature from the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2008. He also received the Tagore Fellowship from IIAS, Shimla[38] in 2018, The Bangalore Review June Jazz Award in 2021[39]; and The Sparrow-R Thyagarajan Literary Award 2022[40], from SPARROW, Mumbai .

Some of his plays in Khasi, including Ka Jingngiah ïa ka Bneng (The Distaste of Heaven) or Ka Khanatang U Klew bad ka Sngi: A Khasi Musical[41] have been staged. Ki Miet ka Jingtriem (Nights of Terror), has been made into a film by State of Mind Production for Doordarshan Kendra, Shillong.[42]

Kynpham[43] has translated several children’s books from English into Khasi for the National Book Trust,[44] India, New Delhi. He has translated poetry and short stories[45] [46]from Khasi into English for Indian Literature[47] (Sahitya Akademi)[48], Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India[49][50] (Penguin[51]), Where the Sun Rises, When Shadows Fall[52] (Oxford University Press)[53], Katha anthologies[54], and others.

Selected Bibliography

• Moments: A First Collection of Poems (Writers Workshop) [55]

• The Sieve: A Collection of Love Poems[56] (Writers Workshop)

• The Season of the Wind[57] (Pine Cones Publications)[58]

• The Fungus (2008)[59] (Pine Cones Publications)

• The Yearning of Seeds (2011)[60] (HarperCollins)[61] [62]

• Time’s Barter: Haiku and Senryu[63] (2015) (HarperCollins)

• Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast (NEHU Publications)[64]

• Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India (Penguin)[49]

• Late-Blooming Cherries: Haiku Poetry from India (HarperCollins) [65][66]

• U Sier Lapalang[67] (2005, Katha) [68]

• Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends (2007, Penguin), [69][70]

• The Legend of U Thlen: A Graphic Novel (2013, Blaft Publications)[71]

• Manik: A Play in Five Acts[72] (2018, Dhauli), translated into Hindi as Manik Raitong (2023, Setu Prakashan) [73]

• Funeral Nights (Context/Westland for India, And Other Stories for the UK and the US)[74][75]

• The Distaste of the Earth (Penguin, May 2024)[76]

• A Handbook for Apphira Journalists (1994, Apphira Publications) [citation needed]

• The Story of Khasi Archery: From God-given Gift to Poetry and Dream Psychology[77] (2010, Pine Cones Publications)[78]

• Hiraeth and the Poetry of Soso Tham: A Study of the Great Unconventional Elegy and the Poetry of the Khasi National Bard [79] (2011, Ri Khasi Book Agency & North Eastern India for Indigenous Studies, Shillong)

• I Moiñ Moiñ Syiar [14] (1993, R. Khongwir) [80]

• Ki Jingkynmaw (an edited anthology of poetry, 2002, S. G. R. Lanong) [citation needed]

• Ka Samoi jong ka Lyer (2007, Pine Cones)[81]

• Ki Mawsiang ka Sohra (2007, Pine Cones Publications)[82]

• Ban Sngewthuh ïa ka Poitri (2009, Gautam Brothers & Himalaya Book Stall)[83]

• Ka Jingïapeiñ jong ka Por: Ki Haiku bad Senryu (2009, Pine Cones Publications & Ri Khasi Books Agency)[84]

• Ka Mother Teresa: Ka Kmie ki Kam Isynei (2010, Gautam Brothers & Himalaya Book Stall) [citation needed]

• Ki Miet ka Jingtriem[85] (2011, Pine Cones Publications)

• Ka Pyrkhat Niam ki Khanatang [86] (2011, Pine Cones Publications)

• Ki Kyrwoh: Ki Khana Phawer [87] (2015, Pine Cones Publications & Ri Khasi Book Agency)

• Ka Jingngiew ka Mynsiem Briew (2022, Pine Cones Publications) [citation needed]

• Ka Jingshai ha ka Miet (2023, Pine Cones) [citation needed]

See also

• List of Indian English poetry anthologies [provide link]

• Literature from North East India [provide link]

External Links

1. Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih (poet) - India - Poetry International[37]

2. Khasi hills and Khasi culture: Reconnection in Kynpham Sing[88]

3. Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih - Mint Lounge[89]

4. A Comparative Study of John Ashbery's Where Shall I Wander [provide link]

5. Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih - FBS UNY [provide link]

6. Funeral Nights Is an Unconventional Novel About the Khasis[5]

8. Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends - Goodreads[90]

9. Time's Barter: Haiku and Senryu - Kynpham ... - Google Books[91]

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