Bishnupriya Chowdhuri
Managing Editor
A bilingual writer and translator, Bishnupriya leads the editorial team for Antonym Collection publishing. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida, a masters in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University. She translates short fiction, creative non-fiction, memoirs and experimental lyrical prose from Bengali to English. She has edited two anthologies of translated short stories and has published her first translated novel No One As Rano Biswas by Alokparna. Other than writing, she keeps close, her daughter’s hands, afternoon breezes and the jade plants that know everything.
Some of her work
Two Flash Fiction Pieces— Rongili Biswas
FLASH FICTION BY RONGILI BISWAS Image Used for Representation IN PRAISE OF AN ORNATE VASE He had my cousin’s name but looked very different. To be honest, I no…...
Read MoreTransitory Space, Brooklyn, NYC – Leah Oates
Transitory Space photographs are, in essence, artifacts found and formed at the ambiguous territory where the human consciousness interacts with space that appears forever present yet keeps morphing through the ungraspable, corridor of time...
Read MoreThis Heart, The Sinking Depths…— Shankar Lahiri (Part Two)
Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri Artwork by Baibhab Bose. 3. I have known her bare back and those wings. She is dusky and tall. Her ebony locks as if free…...
Read MoreThis Heart, The Sinking Depths…— Shankar Lahiri (Part Three)
Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri Artwork by Baibhab Bose. 6. Towards the end of the night, a pitch-dark window rattled by an oceanic explosion woke up. Venus shines phosphorescent…...
Read MoreThis Heart, The Sinking Depths…— Shankar Lahiri (Part One)
Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri Artwork by Baibhab Bose 1. There, the vein gradually thins out from the leaf’s petiole to infinity. Like those fine reverberating threads…...
Read MoreThe Wave Seller & Other Stories— Abhijit Bera
Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri Image used for representation. House With Ivory Nameplate One of those houses with ivory nameplates... you enter, and inside it will be…...
Read MoreThe Shawl – Ansar Uddin
Ansar Uddin is from West Bengal, India. His connection with farming and farm labor runs deep. He has five collection of short stories and three novels to his name thus far. Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri...
Read MoreThe First Kadamba Of The War & Other Stories— Romel Rahman
The First Kadamba Of The War Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri That year the price of the Kadamba flowers simply skyrockets. Crestfallen Mansur asks the seller-girl, “What are you pricing really—flowers or liters of oil?” …...
Read MoreThe Drunken Amphora— Parimal Bhattacharya
Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri Birds guess it first. The eagles, seagulls, and ravens know which one of those monstrous nets, erect skyward along the shoreline, will go down at what exact…...
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Very insightful interview taken by Owshnik Ghosh of my work and reflections. Thank uou Owshnik.
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Nicely done
Beautiful 😊😊👌🏽
Loved the way Debraj links it a full circle, though they're 3 characters from different novels. Kudos!!
Excellent translation doing full justice to the essence of the original poems