Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel Laureate in Literature (1913), was one of India’s greatest poets and the composer of both India’s and Bangladesh’s national anthems. Renowned for his work in various literary genres, he was primarily a poet, publishing over 50 volumes of poetry. Born in Calcutta, Tagore later traveled the world, gaining international recognition. He was knighted in 1915 but renounced the honor in protest after the 1919 massacre of demonstrators in India.
Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee
Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee taught English Literature at Gauhati University for ten years and Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University for five years. He then joined Sahitya Akademi’s Eastern Regional Office at Kolkata as its Secretary. After putting in a decade there, he shifted to Delhi and worked as the Director of the National Book Trust, India for a five-year tenure. Later, he also worked as the Editor of Sahitya Akademi’s prestigious journal Indian Literature for five years and Director of K. K. Birla Foundation, New Delhi for six years. Currently he functions as the Editorial Director of Niyogi Books. An accomplished translator from Bengali into English and vice versa, his English translations of fictions of Mahasveta Devi, Sunil Gangaopadhyay and Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay have been well received. He has also translated a short story collection of U. R. Anantamurthy and a novel by Viswas Patil into Bengali. Recipient of the best translator’s award from IBBY Congress, Mr Bhattacharjee has also edited a collection of stories of displacement from Assam.
Rabindranath Tagore
,Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee
Niyogi Books