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About the Editor

Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction into English, and English fiction, non-fiction and poetry into Bengali. He also translates from Hindi into English and Bengali. A hundred and 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), respectively, the winner of the Muse India translation award (2013) for Buddhadeva Bose’s When The Time Is Right, and the winner of the Kalinga Literary Festival Book Award for translation (2025), he has also been shortlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2009) for his translation of Chowringhee and for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize for his translation of Md Zafar Iqbal’s Rasha, and longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, USA, 2018 for his translation of Bhaskar Chakravarti’s Things That Happen and Other Poems.