Sirsho Bandopadhyay; Arunava Sinha
Sirsho Bandopadhyay is a journalist and author, currently associated with the Bengali daily Aajkaal and the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. He often writes for other publications.
Tiger Woman, originally published in Bengali as Shardulsundori, is Sirsho’s first novel.
Sirsho has published four other novels, the most recent being Tero Nadir Paare, forthcoming in English translation. He has also published two collections of feature writings and a series on forgotten Bengali luminaries. Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction into English. Over forty-five of his translations have been published so far. Twice the winner of the Crossword Translation Award, for Sankar’s Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri’s Seventeen (2011), he has also won the Muse India Award for translation for When the Time Is Right (2012) and been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2009) for his translation of Chowringhee. He was born and grew up in Kolkata and lives and writes in New Delhi.