GUWAHATI: Poet, lyricist and columnist, Saikh Md Sabah al-Ahmed’s collection of 10 English poems have been selected for translation into Italian.
The poems will be published in a popular publication, Frequenze Poetiche in the January 2019 issue. Italian writer and poet Girogio Moio will translate the poems.
Al-Ahmed teaches English and Social Science at Don Bosco School, Panbazar.
Al-Ahmed is the author of three books Tranquil Musings – Collected Poems, Contemporary Chronicles – Polity, Society & Culture (2012) and Past of the Present – A Historical Quest (2012). He is currently working on the biography of Dr. Mamoni Raisom Goswami titled ‘The Crimson Enchantress’.
Before Al-Ahmed, another Guwahati-based poet, Arunav Barua’s poems were translated into Italian.
