Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma is a translator and poet from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was mentored by International Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell under the 2023 NCW Emerging Translators Mentorship programme. His work has been published in Out of Print, Words Without Borders, Hans, Modern Poetry in Translation, the Bombay Literary Magazine and Himal magazine. He was shortlisted for the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation in 2023 and the Mozhi Prize in 2024. His debut translation, Under the Night Jasmine, came out in February 2024. Courtesans Don’t Read Newspapers is his second translation.