Prashanti Talpankar

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Prashanti Talpankar is a writer, translator, playwright and actor, hailing from the coastal state of Goa, India. She is also a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation. She currently serves as an associate professor at Dnyanprassark Mandal's college and Research Centre, Assagao. [1]

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Early life

Prashanti Talpankar grew up as a student leader and as a part of Goa's historic official language agitation. [2] [3]

Career

Writing

Talpankar has been into writing since her college days. Her poems have previously featured on All India Radio, Panaji. She has also written few short stories. However, primarily she writes children's stories and translates literary works. She has written a book based on primary survey of migrant labour called Shadows in the Dark.[ citation needed ]

Books

In 2006, she published Shadows in the dark: The status of the migrant working community in Goa. [4] In 2015, Talpankar released a Konkani translation of Shashi Deshpande's English book That Long Silence, titled as Dirgh Moun Te. [5] [6] This was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation in 2017. [7]

Filmography

Prashanti Talpankar has acted in many Konkani films. Some of her films include Aleesha (2004), [8] [9] Paltadacho Munis (2009), [10] Baga Beach (2013) [11] and Juze (2018). [12] [13] All of these films have won awards, at either the national or the international level. [14] [15]

Awards

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  2. ↑ "Lectures at Margao". oHeraldo. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  3. ↑ "Rane wanted only Marathi as Off Language: Nirmala". Goa News. 28 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "Bibliography of books received in the Goa State Central Library" (PDF). Official Gazette: Government of Goa. III (8): 94. 22 May 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 July 2020 – via Govt. Printing Press, Goa. Alt URL
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  6. ↑ Das, Arti (24 May 2015). "Interpreting worlds". The Navhind Times. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Jog, Talpankar selected for Sahitya Awards". The Goan. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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  12. ↑ "Miransha Naik's Juze releases in Goa". The Navhind Times. 15 April 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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  14. ↑ "2 films set in Goa get national awards". The Times of India. 17 April 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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  16. ↑ "#GOA365 VIDEO: Gajanan Jog & Prashanti Talpankar get prestigious Sahitya Akademi awards". Goa365. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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