Anjana Basu was born in Allahabad and was at school in London. She briefly taught English at Calcutta University and presently, she works as an advertising consultant in Kolkata. She writes stories, features for newspapers and magazines, and poetry.
Her debut novel Curses In Ivory was published in 2003. In 2004, she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland. She published Black Tongue in 2007, followed by Chinku and the Wolfboy (2010), Rhythms of Darkness (2011), In the Shadow of the Leaves (2013), The Leopard in the Laboratory (2016), Eighteen Tides and a Tiger (2017), Hide and Seek Tiger (2019), Lockdown Tiger (2022) and Conspiracy of Aunts (2019). She has worked on the dialogues for The Last Lear (2007) directed by Rituparno Ghosh, and Translating for Rituparno (2024), a collation of her work with the director is her latest publication.
