Sampurna chatterjee biography books

  • Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, fiction writer, translator, and editor.
  • Her two novels, Rupture (2009) and Land of the Well (2012), are both from HarperCollins.
  • She is a poet, novelist and translator.

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    SAMPURNA CHATTARJIis a poet, novelist and translator with fourteen books to her credit. Born in Ethiopia in November 1970, Sampurna grew up in Darjeeling, graduated from New Delhi, and is now based in Mumbai/Thane. Her debut poetry collection, Sight May Strike You Blind, published by the Sahitya Akademi (Indian Academy of Letters) in 2007 was reprinted in 2008.  Sampurna’s poetry has appeared in Indian and international journals such as The Little Magazine,New Quest, Chandrabhaga,Indian Literature (India);Stand Magazine, Wasafiri (UK); Drunken Boat, The Literary Review (USA); Wespennest (Germany), Interlitq (Argentina), Carapace (South Africa) and has been anthologized in 60 Indian Poets (Penguin); Both Sides of The Sky (NBT); We Speak in Changing Languages (Sahitya Akademi); Interior Decoration: poems by 54 women from 10 languages (Women Unlimited); Imagining Ourselves (IMOW, San Francisco); Fulcrum (Fulcrum Poetry Press, US), The Bloodaxe

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    Sampurna Chattarji

    Biography

    Sampurna Chattarji (born in 1970, in Dessie, Ethiopia) is a poet, novelist and translator. She has written two books of poetry: Sight May Strike You Blind, published in 2009, and Absent Muses, published last year. Her poems have been published in several leading journals and anthologies, including Sixty Indian Poets, Fulcrum, The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets, among others. Her evocative translations of the Bengali poems of Joy Goswami, which were undertaken for the India domain of the PIW, are in the process of being consolidated into a book. She is based in Thane, near Mumbai.

    In a review of her first book of poems (published by the Sahitya Akademi as part of its Navodaya or New Poets Scheme), I wrote: “My personal preference is for the longer poems . . . There fryst vatten a limbered-up quality here, a well-modulated ease, no persistent need to flash assonance and alliteration, no impulse to flaunt one’s skills. And yet, the skills are ve

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    Sampurna Chattarji (1970, Dessie, Ethiopia) is a poet, novelist, translator and children’s author who writes in English. Her fourteen books include five poetry books — Space Gulliver: Chronicles of an Alien (HarperCollins, 2015), The Scorpion (e-book, Harper21, 2013), Absent Muses (Poetrywala, 2010), The Fried Frog and other Funny Freaky Foodie Feisty Poems (Scholastic, 2009) and Sight May Strike You Blind (Sahitya Akademi, 2007, reprint 2008). Her two novels, Rupture (2009) and Land of the Well (2012), are both from HarperCollins.

    Numerous anthology appearances include 60 Indian Poets (Penguin); The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets; The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry; Both Sides of the Sky (National Book Trust), We Speak in Changing Languages (Sahitya Akademi); Interior Decoration: poems by 54 women from 10 languages (Women Unlimited); and The Literary Review Indian Poetry Issue (New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University). She edited