Rohini Chowdhury

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Rohini Chowdhury (born 1963) is a children's writer and literary translator. Her published writing for children is in both Hindi and English, and includes translations, novels, short stories, and non-fiction. Her children's books and short stories have been shortlisted for awards, including the Hindu Young World Goodbooks Non-fiction Award and the New Writer Prose and Poetry Competition, 2001, UK.

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As a literary translator, she works mainly in Hindi (pre-modern and modern) and English. She has translated the 17th century Braj Bhasha text, Ardhakathanak, considered the first autobiography in an Indian language, into modern Hindi and English. Her most recent translation is that of Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas , which was published by Penguin India in December, 2019. A short extract from the first volume had earlier been published with the permission of the publisher in the journal Modern Poetry in Translation , Songs of the Shattered Throat, 2017, Number 1. [1] [2]

Biography

Chowdhury was born in Calcutta, India, in 1963. After completing her schooling from Loreto House, she joined Jadavpur University in Calcutta, graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in Economics. She then decided to pursue a business degree at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, graduating from there in 1986 with a PGDM. After several years in business consulting and strategy, she became a full-time writer. In 1997, she moved to London, where she lives with her two daughters. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Published works

Chowdhury has published the following literary translations: [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]

She has also published the following children's books: [22] [23] [24]

She has co-edited the following anthology of short stories with South African writer, Zukiswa Wanner:

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  2. ↑ "Rohini Chowdhury - ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival". jaipurliteraturefestival.org. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
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  5. ↑ Chowdhury, Rohini. (2008). The three princes of Persia : children in world myth. Delhi: Puffin. ISBN   978-0-14-333493-4. OCLC   260209851.
  6. ↑ Chowdhury, Rohini (November 2014). The garden of the Djinn. New Delhi. ISBN   978-81-291-2930-7. OCLC   863633653.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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  8. ↑ "The remains of the self". The Telegraph, India. 4 September 2009.
  9. ↑ Orsini, Francesca; Schofield, Katherine Butler (2015). Tellings and Text: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Open Book Publishers. p. 70. ISBN   9781783741021.
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