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Mamta G. Sagar is a Kannada poet and playwright. Her first collections of poems is “Kaada Navilina Hejje” (Footprints of The Wild Peacock) 1992 and the second is “Nadiya Neerina Teva” (Dampness of the River) 1999. She has four plays to her credit. “The Swing of Desire”, English translation of her Kannada play ‘Mayye Bhara Manave Bhara’, is included in the anthology, “Staging Resistance: Plays by Women in Translation”, Published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2004. Mamta represented India at the 9th Poetry Africa Festival held during October 2005 at Durban, South Africa. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Hyderabad. Her thesis titled “Gender, Patriarchy and Resistance: Contemporary Women’s Poetry in Kannada and Hindi (1980-2000)”. Routes-‘Moving Worlds’ A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Vol 2, Issue One, 2002, University of Leeds-UK. South Asian Studies News Letter-IOWA, Spring 2002. SAMYUKTA- A Journal of Women Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. URDHVA MULA: An Inter-disciplinary Journal focusing on Women and Related Issues, Mumbai. British Council’s Website on Women Writing, ‘Kerala Kavitha 2000’ edited by Dr. K. Ayyappa Panikkar, January 2000, Calicut. INDIAN LITERATURE, a journal published by the Academy of Letters, New Delhi. Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in India, Mumbai etc. carries her articles, poems in translations and her works of translation from Kannada literature and culture. As part of the Fifth Anniversary of the World Poetry Gala Celebrations, her poems in Kannada original along with translations in English were displayed at the Vancouver Public Library, (Central branch) 350 West Georgia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, February 2006. With a specialization in Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Kannada Literature and Cultural Discourse, she has presented papers in important national and international seminars and conferences. Mamta lives in Hyderabad, India. Her poems, articles, translations are also available on: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]