Aditya Vikram

Aditya Vikram is a writer, translator, and scholar from Lucknow, India. They teach undergraduate students writing and critical thinking as part of the Undergraduate Writing Program at Ashoka University. They are interested in questions of language, regionality, translation, gender, and sexuality. Recently awarded the CREA Storytelling Grant 2024 and the TAARIF Fellowship 2024, their poems and essays have been published by The Tribune, Literary Activism, Usawa Lit Mag, British Council, and Goethe Institut, among others. As a part of the project ‘Naqli Trans*’, their ongoing ethnographic work engages with kothi epistemologies to complicate the dominant idea of transness, and chronicles the queer-trans* communities of Lucknow. In the past, they have worked with the Ashoka Centre for Translation to collate one of the largest archives of translated literature(s) from different bhashas across India. A recipient of the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship 2024, they are currently translating into English a collection of Hindi short stories that speak of violence, faith, democracy, and justice.