Anuradha Bhattacharyya (born 6 December 1975) is an Indian writer of poetry and fiction in English. Her

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''One Word'' was awarded Best Book of the Year 2016 by the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi. She is

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of English in Post Graduate Government College, Sector-11,

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Life and career

Anuradha Bhattacharyya was born to Tapan Kumar Bhattacharyya and Chitra Bhattacharyya on 6 December 1975 in

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Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya (1 February 1919 – 11 June 2016) was an Indian archaeologist, museologist, art historian and professor of Sanskrit. He was the Director of the Indian Museum, Kolkata for a decade till his retirement. The Indian govern ...

, the Padma awardee of 2017, was her maternal grandfather. Soon after, her family moved to the

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campus. She received her education from St. Anne’s Senior Secondary School, Roorkee and Banasthali Vidyapeeth,

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. She joined

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for a

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degree in

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in 1996. While at

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published her first book of poems in 1998 via

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. She was Junior Research Fellow in the Departmentof the Humanities and Social Sciences at the

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. She worked in the interdisciplinary research area of

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and literature. She received her

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in 2005. She joined Post Graduate Government College, Sector-11,

as Assistant Professor of English in 2006. Her poetry has been published in various

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and

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worldwide. Gurdev Chauhan calls her poetry layered. ''The Road Taken'' is her first

published in April 2015 by Col

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of Creative Crows Publishers,

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. She was also honoured at the annual festival of poets, Amaravati Poetic Prism organized by the Cultural Centre of Vijayawada. She won fifth prize for her story "Painting Black and Blue" in the International Short Story contest by PoiesisOnline in 2018. Bhattacharyya was conferred the Commendation Award from the Adviser to Chandigarh Administrator for her extensive work in the field of Art & Culture. At Haridwar Literature Festival, December, 2018, she said, "I write about the unique things I have experienced or observed and I publish them for the benefit of the society". In 2020, she received the Best Book of the Year Award from Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi for her novel ''Still She Cried''. She also received their grant-in-aid for the publication of her book of poems ''My Dadu'' on her maternal grandfather

. Bhattacharyya was one of four jury members for the all India young authors' The Lit Digital Awards 2020. In June 2021, Mosaïque Press, UK has published a dual language publication named ''Correnti Incrociate'' of 49 poems in English alongside their Italian translations. Anuradha Bhattacharyya features in this book.

Awards and honours

*Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi Best Book of the Year Award 2019 in the category of English Novel, 2020 *Commendation Award Republic Day of India, Chandigarh Administration, 2019 *Poiesis Award for Excellence in Literature PoiesisOnline, 2018 *Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi Best Book of the Year Award 2016 in the category of English Novel, 2017 *Sahitya Shree from Kafla Intercontinental, 2016

Selected works

Books

* ''Corona Doldrums'' (poems) (New Delhi: Authors Press 2021 ) * ''Jadu'' (novel) (New Delhi: Authors Press 2021 ) * ''My Dadu'' (poems) (New Delhi: Adhyaya Books 2020 ) * ''Still She Cried'' (novel) (New Delhi: Authors Press 2019 ) * ''One Word'' (novel) (New Delhi: Creative Crows Publishers 2016 ) * ''Twentieth Century European Literature – a cultural baggage'' (academic book) (New Delhi: Creative Crows Publishers 2016 ) * ''The Road Taken'' (novel) (New Delhi: Creative Crows Publishers 2015 ) * ''The

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ian Author'' (academic work) (Chandigarh: Kafla Intercontinental 2015 ) * ''Lofty – to fill up a cultural chasm'' (poems) (Kolkata: Writers Workshop 2015 ) * ''Knots'' (poems) (Kolkata: Writers Workshop 2012 ) * ''Fifty-Five Poems'' (Calcutta: Writers Workshop 1998 )

Short stories

* "Bus Stand" (in ''Kafla Intercontinental'', Summer 2013, Chandigarh ) * "If you marry, your father will die" (in e-magazine ''Indian Review'') * "The Cancer" (in ''Kafla Intercontinental'', Jan-April 2014, Chandigarh ) * "Night Bus" (in e journal ''The Bactrian Room'', April 2014) * "Hey Swamiji !" (in e journal ''The Bactrian Room'', Aug 2014) * "Big Max" (in e journal ''The Bactrian Room'', Aug 2014) * "Death by Water" (in ''Kafla Intercontinental'', April 2015, Chandigarh ) * "I love your eyes", (in ''School Shiksha'' (print magazine) Dec-Jan 2014-15 & in e-magazine ''Indian Review''.) * "The Story of a Banana Tree", (in e magazine ''The Bactrian Room'', March 2015, in ''School Shiksha'' (print magazine) Feb 2015, & in ''Little Hands'' (print magazine) March 2015 * "Classroom" (in ''Langlit'', an online journal, May 2015 ) * "Death by Water" (in ''Kafla Intercontinental'', Summer 2015, Chandigarh ) * "Mother Cow" (in ''School Shiksha'' Year-6, Vol 9, Jan 2016, RNI: MPBIL2010/34735, & in ''Little Hands'', Vol.3 Issue 8, Feb 2016, Thiruvananthapuram, RNI: KERENG/2013/51995) * "Party" (in ''Langlit'', an online journal, March 2016 ) * "Order Order" (in e-magazine ''Indian Review'', Sept 2016) * "The Camel & the Horse" (in Songsoptok, The Writers Blog, Kolkata, Feb 2017 & in ''Little Hands'' (print magazine) March 2017) * "The Pumpkin" (in ANURADHASPHERE, Songsoptok, The Writers Blog, Kolkata, March 2017) * "The Railway Station Hang-over" (in ANURADHASPHERE, Songsoptok, The Writers Blog, Kolkata, April 2017 & in ''Little Hands'' (print magazine) April 2017) * "Painting Black and Blue" (in ''School Shiksha'' (print magazine) Jan 2018. * "A Visit to Balaji" (in ''ReaderWriterLounge'', an online journal, August 2019) * "Samosa Express" (in ''Langlit'', an online journal, VOL.5 ISSUE-4 2019, May 2019 ) * "Ex Connection" (in ''Muse India'', an online journal, ISSUE-94 2020, Nov-Dec 2020 )

Other publications

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, Pirandello,

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Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...

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and

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which are published in various Indian print journals.

Life and career

Awards and honours

Selected works

Books

Short stories

Other publications

See also

References

External links