Abhay Kumar

[1] [2] He currently serves as the deputy director general of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi.

He received the SAARC Literary Award for his contribution to contemporary South Asian poetry and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2013.

His The Seduction of Delhi was shortlisted for Muse India-Satish Verma Young Writer Award 2015.

He speaks Magahi, Hindi, English, Russian, Nepali, Portuguese and knows French and Sanskrit.

At the MEA headquarters in New Delhi he served as the Under Secretary Digital diplomacy and sent the first tweet after setting up an official Twitter account of the Ministry of External Affairs of India in 2010.

[25][26] Subsequently, he was appointed as India's Deputy High Commissioner to Australia in August 2015 however could not take up the assignment.

[52][53] This anthology selected, edited and translated by Abhay K. contains the works of 60 contemporary Brazilian poets.

[54] It is a first anthology of its kind edited by Abhay K. which brings together poems and short stories from ten languages of Bihar spanning over 3000 years into English translation.

He has translated poems of 60 Brazilian poets from Portuguese and Kālidāsa's Meghadūta and Ritusamhara from Sanskrit.

[55] His translation of the first Magahi novel Fool Bahadurby Jayanath Pati has been published by Penguin Random House.

In 2013 Abhay released Earth Anthem, a song intended as an anthem for the planet Earth, written by him and translated into eight languages including six official UN languages – Arabic, Chinese, French, English, Russian and Spanish – as well as Hindi and Nepali.

[57][58] On World Environment Day 2017, Abhay K's Earth Anthem composed by L. Subramaniam and sung by Kavita Krishnamurthy was released in Brasília.

[68][69][70][71] Solo Exhibitions 2009- 'Elements' Door Gallery, Art Centre Pushkinskaya-10, Saint Petersburg 2010- 'Enlightenment' - Selskaya Zhizhn Gallery, Saint Petersburg 2010- 'New Symbols' - Sigmund Freud Museum, Saint Petersburg 2011- 'We have come far' - Russian Centre for Science and Culture, New Delhi 2018- 'One Planet' - National Library, Brasília, Brazil 2022- 'UniVerse' - The Akademia Malagasy, Antananarivo, Madagascar 2024 'Shunyata' Romain Rolland Gallerie, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi Shunyata at Alliance Francaise, Delhi 2024 'Shunyata' Bihar Museum, Patna 2024 'Shunyata' National Museum, New Delhi 2024 'Shunyata' Salar Jang Museum, Hyderabad Group Exhibitions 2008- International Festival of Mini Art, Museum of Non-conformist Art, Pushkinskaya-10, Saint Petersburg 2009- Arka Art Gallery, Saint Petersburg 2009- ‘Bridge In nte' Markov Gallery, Saint Petersburg 2009- 'International Festival of Independent Art', Level of Sea, Central Manezh, Saint Petersburg 2009- 'L’INDE-ATTRACTION UNIVERSELLE', Galarie Grand Eterna, Paris 2009 'Earth: the Sacred Treasure' Yusupov Palace Museum, Saint Petersburg 2010 'We are different, we are together' Steiglitz Academy of Art, Saint Petersburg 2010 'Nous Somme Ensemble' Adzak Museum, Paris 2024 8th International Ancient Arts Festival, IGNCA, New Delhi Poetry-paintings of Abhay K and Italian artist Tarshito exhibited at the National Academy of Art, New Delhi highlighted Delhi's glorious past.

[72] A PhD on "Cultural Construct of Self: A Critical Study of Abhay Kumar's Poetry" was awarded by Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India to Amit Dhawan in 2017.

Abhay K. and Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
Ambassador Abhay Kumar donating 5000 tonnes of rice to President Andry Rajoelina of Madagascar
Abhay K. and Forrest Gander at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2020
Abhay K, Fady Joudah, Lionel Fogarty, Sadaf Saz, Arjun Deo Charan, Ashok Bajpai at JLF 2015
Citation of SAARC Literary Award to poet-diplomat Abhay K
Recipients of SAARC Literary Award 2013
Abhay K, Gulzar and Javed Akhtar
Shunyata: A Painting by Abhay K.
A Painting by Abhay K
Abhay K. called a World Poet by poet Vijay Seshadri
PhD awarded to Amit Dhawan for research on the poetry of Abhay K.