In Conversation with Arunava Sinha

Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and nonfiction into English, and English fiction, non-fiction and poetry into Bengali. He also translates from Hindi into English and Bengali. Eighty-two 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, and the winner of the Muse India translation award (2013) for Buddhadeva Bose’s When The Time Is Right, 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. In 2021, his translation of Taslima Nasrin’s Shameless was shortlisted for the National Translation Award in the USA. His translation of Sanya Rushdi’s Hospital has been shortlisted for The Stella Prize in Australia. Besides India, his translations have been published in the UK and the US in English, and in several European and Asian countries through further translation. He is a professor of the practice in the Creative Writing department at Ashoka University, and Co-Director, Ashoka Centre of Translation.
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