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Vandana Kumar

Vandana Kumar is a translator, recruitment consultant, cinephile, Indie Film Producer and multiple award-winning poet from New Delhi, India. Her poems have been published in national and international websites and anthologies of repute. She is a Pushcart prize nominee 2023 and her poetry collection ‘Mannequin of Our Times’ has also won several awards. ‘Mannequin Of Our Times’ has recently been translated into Greek by the ‘Writers International Edition’. She received the Global Icon Award at the Global Vision Summit 2025 held in Athens, Greece.

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