Satis Shroff

Satis Shroff is a poet and writer based in Freiburg (poems, fiction, non-fiction) who also writes on ecological, ethno-medical, culture-ethnological themes. He has studied Zoology and Botany in Nepal, Medicine and Social Sciences in Germany and Creative Writing in Freiburg and the United Kingdom. He describes himself as a mediator between western and eastern cultures and sees his future as a writer and poet. Since literature is one of the most important means of cross-cultural learning, he is dedicated to promoting and creating awareness for Creative Writing and transcultural togetherness in his writings, and in preserving an attitude of Miteinander in this world. He lectures in Basle (Switzerland) and in Germany at the Akademie f¼r medizinische Berufe (University Klinikum Freiburg). Satis Shroff was awarded the German Academic Exchange Prize and also the Kulture prize of Green City Freiburg for his social engagement for the refugees and asylum seekers.

Writing experience: Satis Shroff has written two language books on the Nepali language in German for DSE (Deutsche Stiftung f¼r Entwicklungsdienst) & Horlemannverlag. He is a contributing author on Boloji.com and writes regularly for The American Chronicle (www.amchron.com) and its twenty-one affiliated newspapers in the USA. He has written feature articles in the Munich-based Nelles Verlag's '˜Nepal' on the Himalayan Kingdom's Gurkhas, sacred mountains and Nepalese symbols, and on Hinduism in '˜Nepal: Myths & Realities (Book Faith India) and his poem '˜Mental Molotovs' was published in epd-Entwicklungsdienst (Frankfurt).