Aruna Chakravarti

Aruna Chakravarti has been principal of a prestigious women’s college of Delhi University for 10 years. She is a well-known academic, creative writer and translator with 18 published books.. They comprise five novels, two books of short stories, two academic works and nine works of translation. Her first novel, The Inheritors, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her second, Jorasanko, received critical acclaim and became a best seller. Its sequel, Daughters of Jorasanko, has sold widely and received rave reviews. Her novel Suralakshmi Villa was adjudged ‘Novel of the Year (India 2020)’ by Indian Bibliography published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, UK. Her other well-known works include The Mendicant Prince and Through a Looking Glass: Stories. Her translated works include an anthology of songs from Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitabitaan, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s Srikanta and Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Those Days, First Light and Primal Woman: Stories. Her most recent translation, a curated selection of short stories, is titled Rising from the Dust. Among the various awards she has received are the Vaitalik Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Sarat Puraskar. She is also a script writer and producer of seven multimedia presentations based on her novels.