Ashok Vajpeyi

Ashok Vajpeyi is a Hindi poet of Indian origins, an essayist, a literary-cultural critic and apart from being a noted cultural and arts administrator he is also a former bureaucrat. He was the chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi India’s National Academy of Arts, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India, 2008–2011. He has published over 23 books of poetry, criticism and art, and was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award given by Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters, in 1994 for his poetry collection, ‘Kahin Nahin Wahin’.