About The Author
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.
Camellia Paul has a Masters in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, India with specialisation in Canadian literature and translation studies. She currently works as a Senior Instructional Designer in a multinational ed-tech company. She has worked in print media and publishing houses of international repute, and been part of various academic translation projects. Her poetry, fiction, and art have appeared in online journals and webzines like Livewire, The Passionfruit Review, Setu, Third Lane, among others. She also has published photographs in The Telegraph, Kolkata. She has designed academic book covers and posters for international conferences, published by educational and research institutes, such as Sahitya Akademi, Jadavpur University, and Ashoka University. Currently, she is also learning Arabic. As an independent practitioner of the visual arts and photography, she has extensively worked on the interface of narratives from the everyday in a pandemic world across rural and urban spaces. Apart from being passionate about art, owls, and gardening, Camellia loves reading, listening to music, and exploring cultures.
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