RACHANAVALI VOLUME 2 || রচনাবলি ২ || NABANEETA DEV SEN

Nabaneeta Dev Sen is one of the prominent Bengali litterateurs of our times with more than 80 books to her name. A student of Presidency, Jadavpur, Indiana, Harvard, Cambridge, and Berkeley Universites, an outstanding academic, she recently retired as Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her works reflect her intellections on an amazing array of social, political, and psychological topics, under different genres like poetry, novels, short stories, plays, literary criticism, travelogues, translations, and children’s literature. Her Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture series at Oxford University, a pioneering work on women’s Ramayanas, has started a new school of studies on Sita across the world. Nabaneeta is the Founder President of Soi, Women Writers Association of West Bengal, President of International PEN, West Bengal, and President of Shishu Sahitya Parishad. She has received national and international awards including Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, and Bangla Akademi Lifetime Achievement Award.