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Last Updated: 01 May, 2024 | Views: 87
Age: 67
Profession: Poet
Other Profession(s): Writer, Author, Essayist, Professor, Scholar
Famous For: Visiting fellow at the University of Paris-Sorbonne
Higher Education: University of Nottingham
About (Profile/Biography):
Meena Alexander was born on 17 February, 1951. She was a great Indian American poet, scholar and writer. She was born in Allahabad, India. Meena Alexander was raised in India and Sudan. She worked in the new your city later. At the hunter college and the Cuny graduate centre , she worked as the distinguished English professor .
Meena Alexander Early Life
Meena Alexander was born in the Syrian christen family. She was the daughter of Mary Alexander and George, who belongs to Kerala, India. Meena Alexander’s father worked for Indian government as the meteorologist and her mother was the house wife. Meena Alexander maternal grandmother named as kunju was died before the birth of Meena Alexander. Her maternal grandmother worked with the mahatma Gandhi as she was a theologian.
Meena Alexander Education
Meena Alexander got the tuition from her grandparents on speaking and writing English language. At the age of 13 years, she had completed her high school in Khartoum. She composed short stories in Malayalam at that time she was the child. she felt that in starting ,unable to translate into English. At the age of 15 years, Meena Alexander officially changed her name to Mary Elizabeth to Meena. In year 1969, Meena Alexander completed her bachelor’s in English and French from the Khartoum University.
Meena Alexander Fellowships And Residencies
• In 1993, MacDowell Colony fellow
• In 2003, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency
• In 2008 ,Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
• In 2011, Fulbright Specialists Program
• In 2011, Fulbright Specialists Program
• In 2014, National Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
• In 2016 ,Poet in Residence in Venice
