Teji Grover

Teji Grover was born in Pathankot on March 7, 1955. Pathankot is situated in Punjab. Teji Grover is a very famous Hindi Poet, Painter, Fiction Writer and Translator as well. Teji Grover writes in a very unique way and her poems are translated into many different languages. The way she writes fiction is seamless; she perfectly blends all the elements, for her there is no other world than writing.

Teji Grover loves painting a lot therefore; she only uses natural and organic colors to paint her canvas. She also taught English Literature in Chandigarh at MCM DAV College which is only for Women. In the year 2003 she got retired and after that she devoted all his time to painting and writing completely. At present she stays in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. She has also won many awards in the year 1989; she won the Bharat Bhushan Award for her amazing poetry. She also won the award for Senior Fellow in Literature, Ministry Of Human Resource Development, Department Of Culture and Government of India in the year 1995-1997.

She has also won the Sayed Haider Raza award for poetry in the year 2003. Her popular collections of poetry are Yaha Kucch Andheri Aur Tikhi Hai Nadi, this was published in the year 1983 in Bharti Bhasha Prakashan. She also wrote Lo Kaha Sambari in the year 1994, Maitri in the year 2008 and much more. Recently, she published the second edition of Lo Kaha Sambari in the year 2016. Her poems got published in many of the famous books as well. Teji Grovers poems also got translated into many languages like Polish, English, Swedish and many more.

Her English translations are included in many anthologies such as Penguin New writing In India, Speaking for Myself in the year 2009, Love Poems from India in the year 2005 and much more. Teji Grover has written many essays in Hindi as well. Two of her essays got translated into English and got published. They were Looking at the body of a Poem and The Blue House.

She has written many other essays in English which got published;Weak Pink Color, A Poet Bursting Into Color and many more. She has also written books for children like Doodh Jalebi Jaggagga, Apke Japani Haiku, Mann Ke laddoo and much more. Teji Grover is very good at painting as well; she holds many shows like Earth Colors in Jaipur at the very popular place Jawahar Kala Kendra in the year 2010, Jo Nahin Hain in the year 2011 in New Delhi and many more.