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Ashok Vajpeyi is a poet-critic, art lover, and institution builder. Besides poetry, he has written critical works about literature, culture, visual arts, and Hindustani classical music. Book-length translations of selections of his Hindi poetry have appeared in Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Urdu, Odia, English, French, Polish, German. He founded many institutions such as Bharat Bhavan, Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, and the Raza Foundation. He has been conferred with many awards, some of which are the Sahitya Akademi Award, Kabir Samman, K. Ramakrishnan Award, Shakti Chattopadhyay Award and Shalaka Samman.