Lopamudra Banerjee

Lopamudra Banerjee is an author, poet, translator, editor with several critically acclaimed books and anthologies in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She has received the Journey Awards (First Place category winner) for her memoir Thwarted Escape: An Immigrant’s Wayward Journey, the International Reuel Prize for Poetry (2017) and other notable honors both from USA and India for her literary works. Recently, her poetry collection in collaboration with Priscilla Rice We Are What We Are has been a winner at New York Book Festival 2024. Her translation work Bakul Katha: Tale of the Emancipated Woman (original novel by Ashapurna Devi) has received Honorary Mention at London Book Festival 2022. Her latest translation work, The Bard and his Sister-in-law, a biographical novel on Tagore and Jorasanko Thakurbari has received critical acclaim in the media and has also received Honorary Mention at Paris Book Festival 2024 and New England Book Festival 2024. She has also co-produced and acted in the critically acclaimed poetry film Kolkata Cocktail (2019) and takes avid interest in theatre and podcasting.