Salman Akhtar

Salman Akhtar

About Salman Akhtar

Salman Akhtar is an Indian-American Urdu poet and psychoanalyst. He published his first book of poems in english The Hidden Knot, by Adams Press, (Chicago, IL) in 1985; folloed by Turned to Light in 1998. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012. He has authored, edited or co-edited more than 300 publications including books on psychiatry and psychoanalysis and several collections of poetry.
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