Satendra Nandan

Satendra Nandan was born in Fiji and completed his PhD at the Australian National University. He was a member of the Fiji Parliament from 1982 then moved to Canberra following the coups in the late 1980’s. Nandan’s publications include three volumes of poetry; one novel, The Wounded Sea; and 3 co-edited collections of essays. Nandan received an Asialink residency in 1999-2000 which provided him with the opportunity to work on a range of India-related projects: a novel set in New Delhi, Canberra and Suva which are a collection of semi-autobiographical pieces titled Indian Fragments; a book on the life and values of Mahatma Gandhi, and the Delhi section of his autobiography, Requiem for a Rainbow: An Indo-Fijian Journey. Satendra has been president of the Canberra branch of PEN International, a member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) and a founding member of the Fiji Writer's Association (FWA). He also worked with others on a translation of Patrick White’s Tree of Man into Hindi, published in June 2001.

Requiem for a Rainbow: A Fijian Indian Story. Pacific Indian, 2001.
Lines across Black Waters. Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English/Academy Press, 1997.
The Wounded Sea. Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Voices in the River. Vision International, 1985.

Edited:

Resistance and Reconciliation: Writing in the Commonwealth. [with Bruce Bennett, Susan Cowan, Jacqueline Lo, and Jen Webb] Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 2003.
Crossing Cultures : Essays on Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific. [with Bruce Bennett, Jeff Doyle, and associate editor Loes Baker] London : Skoob Books in association with University College, Australian Defence Force Academy / Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, 1996.