Aruna Chakravarti is an academic, creative writer and translator with nineteen published books on record. They comprise five novels, three collections of short stories, two academic works and nine volumes of translation.
Her first novel The Inheritors was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and her second, Jorasanko received critical acclaim and also became a best seller. Its sequel Daughters of Jorasanko, , has received rave reviews. Her novel Suralakshmi Villa, has been adjudged “Novel of the year (India 2020)” by Indian Bibliography published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature UK. Her latest novel, The Mendicant Prince, a semi-fictional account of the Bhawal legal case, was published in July 2022. It was shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 24-25. Her latest collection of short stories, Creeping Shadows: 13 Ghost Stories, has just been released.
Her translated works include an anthology of songs from Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitabitaan, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s Srikanta and Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Those Days, First Light and Primal Woman: Stories. A collection of short stories, selected and translated by her Rising from the Dust contains twelve stories on the lives of Dalit women.
