Ambassador of Chile visits Bihar, applauds Indian literature

Patna: Ambassador of Chile to India Juan Angulo has profusely appreciated Indian literature and contribution of Indian diplomat Abhay K in spreading its essence to all parts of the globe.
Angulo who played a key role in forthcoming Spanish edition of “The Alphabets of Latin America”, visited ancestral home of Indian diplomat and poet Abhay K at Chhabilapur, near the city of Rajgir in Nalanda district of Bihar.
It was a reciprocal gesture of Chile Ambassador as Indian diplomat had visited all the three houses of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in 2018 and written poems on them which appeared in his poetry collection “The Alphabets of Latin America”. The ambassador also paid floral tributes to his father Rajendra Singh during the visit.
The Alphabets of Latin America is a poetry collection by poet Abhay K. which takes one on a roller coaster ride to one of the most culturally and geographically fascinating continents, known for its legendary Maya and Inca civilizations, sizzling Samba and Tango, the world’s biggest carnivals, labyrinths of Borges, magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, great poetry of Ruben Dario, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Cesare Vallejo, Octavio Paz, fascinating art of Frida Kahlo and Fernando Botero, among others. As one flips its pages, one finds oneself swimming with pink dolphins in the Amazon river, watching the sunset in Martian landscape of Atacama desert, kissing the heights of Machu Picchu and admiring a thousand rainbows at Iguazu Falls.
The book has been widely praised by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Forrest Gander, Prof. Jorge Heine of Boston University; Ruth Padel, Professor of poetry at King’s College, London among others and has been translated into Italian, Malayalam and Spanish. The book has been widely reviewed in publications such as World Literature Today, Agenda Poetry, UK, Beltway, USA, among others.
As a poet-diplomat Abhay K. has built literary bridges between India and Latin America by translating 60 Brazilian poets into English, writing a number of poems on Brazil’s capital city Brasilia which was published as The Prophecy of Brasilia, and getting his edited volume 100 Great Indian Poems translated into Portuguese and Spanish and getting them published in Latin America. He was elected a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in Brasilia earlier this year.