Clinton B. Seely

Clinton B. Seely is a prominent scholar of the Bengali language and
literature. He is Emeritus Professor of Bengali at the Department of
South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
He has written a biography of the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das
and has translated Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s Meghnadbadh Kavya
into English. His other works include Barisal and Beyond: Essays on
Bangla Literature, Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair: Selected Poems to
the Mother Goddess and the edited volumes, Women, Politics, and
Literature in Bengal and Bengal Studies: A Collection of Essays.
Seely has received, among several other academic and literary awards,
the ‘Ashoke Kumar Sarkar Memorial’ Ananda Prize in 1993 and
the Dinesh Chandra Sen Research Society’s ‘4th Annual Award for
Excellence in Research in Bengali Literature’ in 1999.

Buddhadeva Bose

Author:
Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) is widely considered to be the successor to Rabindranath Tagore for the versatility and breadth of his literary work. A multifaceted writer and one of the leading lights of modern Bengali literature, Bose combines lyricism with a style of writing uniquely his own to create an unmatched legacy.

Translator:
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over eighty of his translations have been published so far in India, the UK and the USA. He teaches creative writing at Ashoka University, where he is also the co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation, and is the Books Editor at Scroll.in.