Bishnupriya Chowdhuri

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

Hiran Sarkar

Imagination Translated to Paintings: In Conversation with Hiran Sarkar

This week, Bishnupriya Chowdhuri of The Antonym engages in a conversation with artist Hiran Sarkar who happens to have designed the cover page of the first print edition of the magazine...
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Chronicle of the Lost Rivers – Amar Mitra

Amar Mitra is a Bengali novelist. He has received numerous awards - Sahitya Akademi (2006) for the novel Dhruboputro, Bankim Chandra Award(2001) for the novel Ashwacharit, Katha award(1998), SharatChandra Award(2018) and many others...
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story of a dog by Parimal Bhattacharya

Bow— Parimal Bhattacharya

Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri “I think man's most treasured possession is memory. It is a kind of fuel that burns and gives you warmth. My memory is like a trunk with many drawers.…...
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Book Excerpt From No One as Rano Biswas— Alokparna

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY BISHNUPRIYA CHOWDHURI I know I am going to kill myself. Maybe tomorrow. Or the day after. One of these days. Some day. Why? Why not? What do you think…...
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Archeology of Land, History, Self and Love: In Conversation with Nandini Bhattacharya – Bishnupriya Chowdhuri

So far they’ve lived across continents and worlds and mentalities. I suppose all my protagonists are also me, in some sense, or having an animated  argument with me. So far, though, none of them have lived on other planets or galaxies, and so on. I guess I love this planet too much...
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Mia Lecomte

Abloom in Plurality, In Conversation with Mia Lecomte – Bishnupriya Chowdhuri

      Born in Milan to a French father and an Italian mother, Mia has known crossroads, connections, and multiplicities of voices deeply since the beginning. A poet and a scholar,…...
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A short story from Bangladesh by Nasreen Jahan

A Different Kind— Nasreen Jahaan

Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri  My daughter's face on the other side of the lamp appears sharp, brassy the next moment, and at times, waterlike, spreading across the room. For the first time, I…...
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