Easterine Kire Iralu (1959- ): Author Profile
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Easterine Kire Iralu is a writer, poet, translator, and editor from Nagaland, a state in the North East of India. Born in Kohima in 1956, her work is rooted in the lived experiences of Naga people, especially the experiences of Naga women as well as the broader impacts of the long-running Indo-Naga Conflict (sometimes called the Naga Insurgency). Her first novel, A Naga Village Remembered (2003), was the first book to be published in English by a Naga author.
Kire has translated 200 oral poems from her native language, Tenyidie, into English. She has been actively involved in working on creating better opportunities for the Naga youth and nurturing and evangelizing the Naga folktales.
Her work has received significant attention in the past decade stemming from the publication of When the River Sleeps (Hindu Prize for Fiction, 2015) and Son of the Thundercloud (Sahitya Akademi’s Bal Sahitya Puraskar, 2018). Her other novels include A Terrible Matriarchy (2007, reprinted by Zubaan books in 2013), Mari (2010), Bitter Wormwood (2011) , Don't Run, My Love (2017), and Walking the Roadless Road: Exploring the Tribes of Nagaland (2019). Her latest novel, Spirit Nights, was published in 2022.
Her work is deeply concerned with the social, political, and cultural currents that shape Naga lives. Indigenous spirituality, the impact of the spread of Christianity, gendered and State violence, and the tradition of oral narratives come together in her works to create uniquely Naga narratives.
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