Yuyutsu Sharma
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Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma, photographed at a poetry reading in Elyria, Ohio
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| Born | January 5, 1960 Nakodar, Punjab, India |
| Occupation | Poet editor writer translator |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Genre | Indian poetry Nepali poetry |
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Yuyutsu R.D. (Ram Dass) Sharma (born January 5, 1960) is a widely traveled Nepalese / Indian poet and journalist. He was born at Nakodar, Punjab of India and grew up in Nakodar and later at Nangal Township of Shivalik Nepal ranges of Mahabharata Hills where his father worked. He moved to Nepal at an early age and now writes in English and Nepali literature. Half the year he travels extensively to read from his works and conduct creative writing workshops at various universities in the United States and Europe, but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home.
Sharma was educated at Nakodar under the supervision of his maternal grandfather, Dheru Ram and grew up in a very religious atmosphere with his mother, Shanti Devi and at the age of nine became a shaman as he was thought to be possessed by a serpent spirit, his family deity. He came under the impression of Naga ascetics whom his father, Madan Lal, revered, but later followed the course of Western education and received his early education first at DAV college, Nakodar, Punjab, and later at Baring Union Christian College, Batala and University of Rajasthan. Yuyutsu remained active in the literary circles of Rajasthan and acted in plays by Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee. Later he taught at various campuses of Punjab University, Chandigarh and Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu.
Yuyutsu quit teaching at Tribhuwan University in 1996 and opted the career of a free lance writer. He also started visiting the Annapurna region of Western Nepal regularly but only in 2006 published his work devoted to the region as The Lake Fewa and a Horse and later in 2008, Annapurna Poems, Selected and New. He also met German Photographer, Andreas Stimm at Frankfurt book fair in 2004 and his collaboration with Stimm resulted in three books of picture/poetry book in black and white, currently put thereto in a 900-page volume, Nepal Trilogy:Photographs and Poetry on Annapurna, Everest, Helambu & Langtang.
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