Satendra Nandan Satendra Nandan i(A4046 works by) (a.k.a. Satendra P. Nandan; Satendra Pratap Nandan)
Born: Established: 1939
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Fiji,
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South Pacific, Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1987
Heritage: Fijian Indian
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1 y separately published work icon Life Journeys : Love and Grief Satendra Nandan , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2022 25497868 2022 single work autobiography 'Born into a once indentured or girmit (‘agreement’) Indian family in Fiji, and having studied in India and the UK and taught in India and Fiji, Satendra Nandan lays claim to ‘a fortunate life’. It has also been an exemplary life to those of us who aspire to understanding and sympathy across the borders of culture and ethnicity, race and nation. This is a personal book of love and loss, life and death, as its author retraces the lives nd revisits the deaths of those he has loved most. It is also a tribute to friendship: indeed, friendship is at once the glory and the burden of Satendra’s narrative. What reconciles us to what he deplores as ‘the fragility of existence and the vulnerability of human life ’is precisely the human relationships established over the course of a full and felt life. The author of many recollections and reflections, Satendra is still able to surprise and move us to revisit our own pasts, and the pastness of the past, in order to rediscover what we thought we already knew. Satendra’s reflections on his own life resemble nothing so much as a Wordsworthian elegy in which the consolation he is seeking on his own and on the reader’s behalf inheres in the very power and self-evident value of what has been lost’ – William Christie, Head, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University; Director, Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres.' 

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1 At the Surgery | Personal | A Remembrance | In Between Satendra Nandan , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Of Indian Origin : Writings From Australia 2018;
1 y separately published work icon Brief Encounters : Literature and Beyond Satendra Nandan , Acton : Ivy Press International , 2015 9360754 2015 selected work essay

'In his third book of essays, Satendra Nandan writes about his life in literature and politics: from Fiji to Australia to India. Contemporary Issues of Fiji constitution, democracy, human rights, freedom of the press, identity, asylum seekers, writing, memories of people and places are included in this most readable collection written in the last couple of years. There are pieces here on Patrick White, V S Naipaul, R K Narayan, Nadine Gordimer, Kushwant Singh, Salman Rushdie, Narendra Modi, Sitiveni Rabuka and the late Gough Whitlam. The volume begins with his public lecture 'Personal' given at the National Library of Australia when he was a Harold White Fellow before he was invited to be a Commissioner on the Fiji Constitution Commission.' (Publication summary)
1 The Burial Satendra Nandan , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: ‘Whaddaya Know?’ : Writings for Syd Harrex 2015; (p. 53-67)
1 [Untitled] Satendra Nandan , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 6 no. 2 2014;
— Review of A Country Too Far : Writings on Asylum Seekers 2013 anthology autobiography biography poetry short story essay
1 Patrick White : The Quest of the Artist Satendra Nandan , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Patrick White Centenary : The Legacy of a Prodigal Son 2014; (p. 110-124) ‘One of the epigraphs to The Vivisector is a quotation from the English painter Ben Nicholson. It expresses a major theme in White's fiction for it expresses the idea that both the artist and the mystic arc searching for "the understanding and realisation of infinity." Several of White's characters attempt to reach or reveal the Infinite in their lived lives or artistic creations. Even in his first published short story, "The Twitching Colonel", there are suggestions of a yearning for a self beyond the conscious self. The Colonel longs to transcend the ephemeral: "I shall strip myself of the onion-folds of prejudice, till standing naked though conscious I sec myself complete or else be consumed like the Hindu conjurer who is translated into space." (TC. 602-609) Theodora Goodman in The Aunt's Story reaches a heightened awareness where "light and silence ate into the hard, resisting barriers of reason, hinting at some ultimate moment of clear vision" (VIV. 290). Stan Parker's lifetime search in The Tree of Man ends with a vision "that One, and no other figure, is the answer to all sums." (TM. 497) Voss believes that in this "disturbing country" ... it is possible more easily to discard the inessential and to attempt the infinite." (V. 38) ’ (Introduction)
1 Notes Towards an Autobiography Patrick White : Writing, Politics and the Australia-Fiji Experience Satendra Nandan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 9 2012;
1 Reading Asia : Musings of a Peripatetic Writer Satendra Nandan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 4 no. 2 2012; Notes for a paper delivered at the National Conference of the Australian Association of Teaching English (ATTE) on the theme ‘Finding a Place for Falstaff’, Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 2011
1 Tsutomu Yamaguchi : The Twice-Bombed i "The garden is green, beautiful,", Satendra Nandan , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 3 no. 1 2010;
1 Two Words : 30 January 1948 i "The dust of tombs and temples", Satendra Nandan , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mehraab (The Arch) 2008; (p. 110-113)
1 Rain i "On a rainy day", Satendra Nandan , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mehraab (The Arch) 2008; (p. 106-109)
1 Habits of the Heart i "Day after day a sad wind blows", Satendra Nandan , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mehraab (The Arch) 2008; (p. 104-105)
1 Days and Nights i "The lightnings and the night rain", Satendra Nandan , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mehraab (The Arch) 2008; (p. 102-103)
1 The Scarecrow i "Old clothes upon old sticks to scare a mynah bird.", Satendra Nandan , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mehraab (The Arch) 2008; (p. 100-101)
1 A Scene i "The humidity of race", Satendra Nandan , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mehraab (The Arch) 2008; (p. 98-99)
1 Light i "When the light is gone", Satendra Nandan , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mehraab (The Arch) 2008; (p. 94-97)
1 In Between i "Between your voice", Satendra Nandan , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mehraab (The Arch) 2008; (p. 92-93)
1 Prophecy / Epitaph? i "Bone", Satendra Nandan , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mehraab (The Arch) 2008; (p. 90-91)
1 Revelation i "Often I sit with the epics to scan", Satendra Nandan , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mehraab (The Arch) 2008; (p. 88-89)
1 14 May 1987: An Enigma of Exile Satendra Nandan , 2007 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Asiatic , December vol. 1 no. 1 2007;
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