Aruna Chakravarti was Principal
of Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi. She is also a well-known
academic, writer and translator and has contributed widely for national and
international journals. Her volume of translated stories from the masters of
contemporary Bengali fiction entitled The Way Home appeared in 2006. Her first
attempt at creative writing a novel The
Inheritors, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004. Secret Spaces, a volume of her own short
stories, was published in April 2010.She has also contributed a piece The Broken Nest, a translation of
Rabindranath Tagore s novella Nashta
Needh to the volume entitled The
Essential Tagore and a simultaneous volume of the same name by
Visva-Bharati. Among her forthcoming publications is Jorasanko a novel based on the lives of the women of the Tagore
family. Aruna Chakravarti is the recipient of several prestigious awards. Among
them are the Vaitalik Award, the
Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize and the Sarat
Puraskar.
