Fwd: PEN@Prithvi, Sat. 8 March: SAMPURNA CHATTARJI reads from Dirty Love: Short stories
Karishma Pais
THE PEN ALL-INDIA CENTRE
invites you to its PEN@Prithvi session for March 2014
A READING BY SAMPURNA CHATTARJI
from her collection of short stories about life in Bombay, Dirty Love (Penguin, 2013)
Date: Saturday, 8 March 2014
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Prithvi House (1st floor), Opp. Prithvi Theatre
The reading will be followed by a discussion with the author.
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Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist, translator and cultural organizer. Her books include the poetry collections Sight May Strike You Blind (2007) and Absent Muses (2010), and the novels Rupture (2009) and Land of the Well (2012). Born in Ethiopia in November 1970, Chattarji grew up in Darjeeling, graduated from New Delhi, and lives in Bombay/Thane. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals in India and overseas, and in several anthologies, including 60 Indian Poets (Penguin); Both Sides of The Sky (NBT); We Speak in Changing Languages (Sahitya Akademi); The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe) and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry. Her 2004 translation of Sukumar Ray’s poetry and prose Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray was reissued in 2008 as a Puffin Classic titled Wordygurdyboom! She has also translated the Bengali poet Joy Goswami, which is due out later this year. She is also the author of several books for young people, including The Fried Frog and Other Funny Freaky Foodie Feisty Poems (2009), which has gone into multiple reprints. Sampurna Chattarji was the 2012 Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
RANJIT HOSKOTE
General Secretary
The PEN All-India Centre
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