VAHNI CAPILDEO

8 Readings

Vahni Capildeo reads from their work at the Almost Island Dialogues 2011.These readings were all held in the gardens of the India International Centre. In the audience are the other participants of the 2011 Dialogues: Forrest Gander, Irwin Allan Sealy, George Szirtes, Charu Nivedita, the Cybermohalla Collective, Giriraj Kiradoo, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty and Rahul Soni.

Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Capildeo's eight books and eight pamphlets include Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet, November 2021) and The Dusty Angel (Oystercatcher, 2021). Their interests include plurilingualism, traditional masquerade, and multidisciplinary collaboration. They are Writer in Residence and Professor at the University of York, a Visiting Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford.