Udayan Vajpeyi

Some of Udayan’s writings include  Sudeshna & Door Desh Ki Gandh (short-stories), Abhed Aakash (book of conversations with Film maker Mani Kaul), Kuchh Vakya  Ganitajna ki Kavitayen (poems), Charkhe Par Barhat (essays), Vie Invisible (poems in French translation, Paris), which have been  translated into many languages across the world.
 
Mr. Vajpeyi has translated texts of Octavio Paz, Anton Chekhov, Tadeuz Rozewicz, Nilim Kumar (Assamese) amongst others into Hindi. He has written texts for many documentary films and the dialogues of Char Adhyaya (Kumar Shahani’s feature film on Ravindarnath Tagore’s novel). 

He has participated in various poetry festivals in India and abroad, including Biennale International de poetess in Val-de-Maurne (France) in 1997 and was invited as Writer-in-Residence in Lavigny (Switzerland) in 2000. He  teaches Physiology in Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal.