The Asia Scotland Institute are delighted to host Bashabi Fraser, who will be in conversation with Roddy Gow discussing her two recent poetry collections: Habitat (2023) and Patient Dignity (2021). 

Speaker Bio:

Dr Bashabi Fraser, CBE, HonFASL, is an award-winning poet, children’s writer, translator, editor and academic. She is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University and Co-Founder and Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs). Bashabi has written and edited 25 books, published several articles/chapters in international journals/books and has been widely anthologised as a poet.  She is on the Editorial Board of several international journals and is Chief Editor of Gitanjali and Beyond. Bashabi is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, an Hon’y Fellow at CSAS, University of Edinburgh and has been declared an Outstanding Woman of Scotland by the Saltire Society in 2015.

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