Arunava Sinha

About The Author

Arunava Sinha is an award-winning translator of Bengali fiction, non-fiction and poetry into English. Over 60 of his translations have been published so far in India, and several of them in the UK and the USA. He teaches Creative Writing at Ashoka University and is the Books Editor of the politics and culture magazine Scroll.in. His recently published translations include Taslima Nasreen's Shameless, Bani Basu's Moom, and Desire for Fire: An Anthology of Modern Bengali Poetry. His translation of Ashoke Mukhopadhyay's A Ballad of Remittent Fever was longlisted for the JCB Prize 2020, and his translation of Manoranjan Byapari's There's Gunpowder in the Air was shortlisted for the JCB Prize 2019.

Books by Arunava Sinha

Our Madhopur Home
By Tripurari Sharan
Translated by Arunava Sinha
Told from the perspective of a dog Laura, Our Madhopur Home is a sprawling family saga about homes, displacement, and loss. Spanning three generations and a hundred years, it is a story of people, and it is a story of its times. As the patriarch of the family sees his children grow up and ...
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An Educated Woman In Prostitution

A Memoir of Lust, Exploitation, Deceit (Calcutta, 1929)

By Manada Devi
Translated by Arunava Sinha
‘But now, having travelled to the frontier of the world of sins, I no longer hesitated in trampling over the remnants of the goodness in my heart.’

Manada, Maani didi, Feroza Bibi, Miss Mukherjee – the jostling identities of our beguiling and charming protagonist as she glides through a li...
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