Shakespeare & Co. is pleased to host a reading by celebrated author Ruth Vanita on Tuesday, April 23, at 7:00 pm. Vanita will read selections from her two most recent books The Broken Rainbow: Poems and Translations (Copper Coin, 2023) and On the Edge: 100 Years of Hindi Fiction on Same-Sex Desire (Penguin, 2023). This event is free and open to the public.

Ruth Vanita is the author of two historical novels, Memory of Light (Penguin, 2022) and A Slight Angle (forthcoming Penguin, 2024), two collections of poetry, and many non-fiction works, including Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriages in Modern India (Penguin) and The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics (OUP, 2023). She is also a well-known translator; her most recent translation is On the Edge: 100 Years of Hindi Fiction on Same-Sex Desire (Penguin, 2023). Her Shakespeare's Re-Visions of History will appear this summer.

Ruth Vanita