Deepa Ganesh

Deepa Ganesh is the Editor of Hyphen, an international publishing house for Indian Language literatures in English. She served as Deputy Editor at The Hindu for two decades. Currently, she is the Professor of Literature and Executive Director of the Centre for Visual and Performing Arts, RV University. She was the editor of the Sahitya Academy journal, Aniketana, for three years. Her areas of interest are Literature, Languages, Music and Theatre. She has five published books: A Life in Three Octaves- The life and times of Gangubai Hangal, the doyen of Hindustani music; Hunt, Bangle, Chameleon, a collection of U R Ananthamurthy's short stories which won the Sahitya Akademi award for translation; Just a Few Pages, a translation of the memoir of the early Kannada writer Saraswati Bai Rajwade by Vaidehi; a translation of Kaleye Kayaka as Art as Life, the autobiography of the harbinger of Kannada company theatre Gubbi Veeranna; and A Source Book of Kannada Theatre (1850-1950), co-authored with KV Akshara and Venkataramana Aithal. She has translated over 25 books for Tulika, and Pratham publications. Deepa co-founded the Bahuvachana publishing initiative for translations from Indian languages into Kannada, and a bi-monthly Kannada magazine for Kannada book reviews. Hyphen is run by Bahuvachana. She has written for several acclaimed journals in India and abroad, and has presented papers at various conferences.