Bridging Words & Visions

Professor Mamta Sagar is a poet, an transdisciplinary artist, writer, academic and translator based out of Bengaluru. Her writings focus on identity politics, feminism, issues around linguistic and cultural diversities. Mamta has worked with Hyderabad Central University and Bangalore University where she has taught Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, Kannada Literature, Feminism, Postcolonial and Cultural Studies.

Pada Sanchara is her recent anthology of poems published by Kaavya Sanje. She has six collections of poems, four plays, an anthology of column writing, a collection of critical essays. Beyond Barriers: Slovenian-Kannada Literature Interactions (Translation) edited by Dr Sagar is published by Centre for Slovenian Literature, Ljubljana. Preetiya Nalavathu NiyamagaLu, her translation of Elif Shafak’s novel into Kannada is conferred with the prestigious Bhasha Bharathi Translation award. She is conferred with the esteemed ‘The World Literary Prize’ (2024) an International award for her contribution as a writer. She has a set of three poetry films and a book of collaborative poetry activities titled as INTERVERSIONS (2018). Art-Poetry installation project developed and co-curated by Mamta was exhibited at the Piccolo Museo della Poesia, Italy 2020. She has been the Charles Wallace Fellow and is involved with international poetry translation projects. On an yearlong (2022-23) IFA project, she documented the city of Bengaluru through poetry. Mamta curates Kaavya Sanje, a community poetry engagement since 2013. Dr. Sagar has been invited worldwide to presented her poems and facilitated poetry and translation workshops. Professor Sagar facilitates Creative Writing and Translation Studies as part of the Contemporary Art Practice in the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru.