Short Fiction and the Bengali Imagination | Arunava Sinha and Tahmima Anam with Mohini Gupta

Arunava Sinha's landmark new anthology of Bengali Literature in English, The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories, gathers a century's worth of extraordinary stories both famous and some which were lost with time to present a glimpse into the Bengali imagination. The prose short story style evolved in Bengal with the arrival of the British and quickly adapted to the Bengali context, covering themes of war, famine, religious conflict, the caste system and liberation. In conversation with academic Mohini Gupta, Sinha and celebrated writer Tahmima Anam, take a deep dive into a style of writing that crosses literary boundaries and geographical borders while stretching the possibilities of social realism, political fiction and intimate domestic tales.
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over 80 of his translations have been published so far across India, the UK, the USA, and Australia. He has won several translation awards. He teaches at Ashoka University, where he is also the co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation.
Mohini Gupta, a DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford, specialises in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. She's a Charles Wallace India Trust Translator-Writer Fellow, co-editor of two books, and an alumna of SOAS University of London. Her translations have been featured by Tulika Publishers, among other accomplishments in academia and translation.
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