Poonam Saxena

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Poonam Saxena is a journalist, writer, author and translator. She studied in Delhi, and did her BA and MA in History from St Stephen’s College. She went on to do an M. Phil from Delhi University. She has had a distinguished career in journalism. She was with The Hindustan Times, where she launched and edited the HT Sunday magazine, Brunch, for over ten years, before moving on to edit the weekend section. She continues to do a regular column for Hindustan Times which looks at our past through the prism of Hindi literature and Hindi cinema.She has written extensively on popular culture, film, television, books and Hindi literature. She has been on the jury of many awards, including the Crossword Jury for Best Translation.

She translates from Hindi to English and her translations include Dharamvir Bharati's Gunahon ka Devta (Chander & Sudha, Penguin Viking), Rahi Masoom Raza's Scene : 75 (HarperCollins), The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told (Aleph) and Udayan Vajpeyi’s Qayaas (Love Is Participation in Eternity, Bloomsbury). Most recently, she has translated the memoirs of two leading Hindi writers, Mannu Bhandari’s Ek Kahani Yeh Bhi (This Too Is a Story) and Rajendra Yadav’s Mud Mud Ke Dekhta Hoon (Echoes of My Past). Both have been published by Penguin.

Given her deep interest in Hindi films and popular culture, she also co-authored Karan Johar’s memoir, An Unsuitable Boy (Penguin). The book won the Popular Choice Award for Biography at the Crossword Book Awards in 2018.

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