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Yashodhara Raychaudhuri

Yashodhara Raychaudhuri (born 1965) is a Bengali language poet hailing from Kolkata. She is a 1992 batch officer of the Indian Audit and Accounts service. She has served in different parts of India extensively. Publishing her literary works since 1993, she has over 19 collections of poetry and 18 books of collections of short stories, novellas, memoirs, and articles to her credit. She was awarded the Krittibas Puroskar in 1998 established by Sunil Gangopadhyay and Anita Sunilkumar Puraskar instituted by Bangla Akademy in 2006. She is the recipient of Barnaparichay Sharad Samman 2011. Publishing in leading newspapers and magazines of Bengal, Yashodhara is a translator from the original French language into Bengali. She was awarded the Diplome de langue from Alliance Fraincaise du Calcutta in 1998 and has translated Leonardo Da Vinci by Serge Bremley in 2008, and Combat de la Vie by Dr Luc Montaignier in 2012. She is married to Trinanjan Chakraborty, a scholar and teacher of the French language. She was awarded the Telegraph She Awards in 2023.

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