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Anuradha Bhattacharyya | |
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Born | Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 6 December 1975
Occupation | Writer, poet, academic |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | Banasthali Vidyapith, Jadavpur University, IIT, Kharagpur |
Period | 1998 - |
Subject | fiction, poetry |
Notable works | One Word, The Road Taken, Lofty |
Notable awards | Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi |
Spouse | Atul Singh |
Children | Anusmita [1] |
Anuradha Bhattacharyya (born 6 December 1975) is an Indian writer of poetry and fiction in English. [2] Her novel One Word was awarded Best Book of the Year 2016 by the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi. [3] [4] She is Associate Professor of English in Post Graduate Government College, Sector-11, Chandigarh.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya was born to Tapan Kumar Bhattacharyya and Chitra Bhattacharyya on 6 December 1975 in Calcutta, India. Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya, the Padma awardee of 2017, was her maternal grandfather. [5] Soon after, her family moved to the Roorkee University campus. She received her education from St. Anne’s Senior Secondary School, Roorkee and Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan. She joined Jadavpur University, Calcutta for a Master of Arts degree in English Literature in 1996. [6] While at Jadavpur University, P. Lal published her first book of poems in 1998 via Writers Workshop. [7]
She was Junior Research Fellow in the Departmentof the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. She worked in the interdisciplinary research area of psychoanalysis and literature. [8] She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in English Literature in 2005. [9] She joined Post Graduate Government College, Sector-11, Chandigarh as Assistant Professor of English in 2006. [10]
Her poetry has been published in various literary magazines and anthologies worldwide. [11] Gurdev Chauhan [12] calls her poetry layered. [13] [14]
The Road Taken is her first novel published in April 2015 by Col Mahip Chadha of Creative Crows Publishers, New Delhi. She was also honoured at the annual festival of poets, Amaravati Poetic Prism [15] organized by the Cultural Centre of Vijayawada. [16] [17] She won fifth prize for her story "Painting Black and Blue" in the International Short Story contest by PoiesisOnline in 2018. [18] [19]
Bhattacharyya was conferred the Commendation Award from the Adviser to Chandigarh Administrator for her extensive work in the field of Art & Culture. [20] At Haridwar Literature Festival, December, 2018, she said, "I write about the unique things I have experienced or observed and I publish them for the benefit of the society". [21] [22]
In 2020, she received the Best Book of the Year Award from Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi for her novel Still She Cried. She also received their grant-in-aid for the publication of her book of poems My Dadu on her maternal grandfather Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya. [23] [24]
Bhattacharyya was one of four jury members for the all India young authors' The Lit Digital Awards 2020. [25]
In June 2021, Mosaïque Press, UK has published a dual language publication named Correnti Incrociate of 49 poems in English alongside their Italian translations. Anuradha Bhattacharyya features in this book. [26] [27]
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