Jacinta Kerketta
Author and poet
By being in the Writer's Residency, I not only want to write but I also hope to have conversations and suggestions to help me improve my writing. Meeting and listening to other writers will also be good for my writing. Living in France and getting to know about the community and culture there can help me understand India and France comparatively. Some book suggestions can be helpful. This will be my first experience of writing while living in France, I am excited about it. I would like to return from here with the experiences of discipline towards writing, finding peace within myself and expanding my writing by connecting with the wider world.
Jacinta Kerketta is a poet, story writer, and freelance journalist belonging to an Oraon Adivasi community of West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand (India). She writes in Hindi.
So far, five of her poetry collections and one diary have been published. Some of her poetry collections have been translated into foreign languages like German, Italian, French, Spanish and many Indian languages too.
In 2014, she was given the Voice of Asia Recognition Award by Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, Thailand. She was a UNDP Fellow in 2014. In 2022, she is one of the 22 self-made women of India selected by Forbes India. In 2024, she received the Omega Resilience Award Fellowship in collaboration with two organizations, Commonweal of North America and START UP!. In 2025 The Vouge India has published her interview.
