Another Country

Nabaneetā Dev Sen’s novella “Defying Winter” is featured in Five Novellas by Women, along with the work of four other contemporary female Indian authors. With more than seventy publications in India to her name, she has received both the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad literary prize as well as the Padmashri Prize from the President of India. (updated 6/2010)

Sunil B. Rāy has translated extensively from French, Spanish, and Persian to Bengali and from Bengali to French and English, resulting in numerous books and publications. (updated 1992)

Carolyne Wright is a poet, translator, and essayist. She has written eight books and chapbooks of poetry and an investigative memoir about her experiences in Chile during Salvador Allende’s presidency. She received a Fulbright Senior Research grant to compile and translate an anthology of Bengali women writers. (updated 6/2010)