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25 Jul, 1969 India - South Asia Genres Fiction, Academic, Poetry, Blogger, Translator Languages English, Bengali Rimi B. Chatterjee is a novelist, blogger and academic. Her second novel The City of Love, about the quest for love and enlightenment against the backdrop of the spice trade and piracy in sixteenth century Bengal, came out in October 2007 with Penguin India. Her first novel, Signal Red, a near-future science fiction story about a scientist, came out in 2005, also with Penguin. Her book Empires of the Mind: A History of Oxford University Press in India During the Raj, won the SHARP deLong Book Prize for 2007. She also writes poetry and short fiction, and blogs at http://rimibchatterjee.net/. Having been born in the UK, she came to India at the age of ten. She teaches English at Jadavpur University, has worked in publishing for the imprints Stree and Samya. She is now working on her next novel, a far future science fiction story titled Flip! Awards The SHARP deLong Book Award for best work in the History of the Book, 2007, for Empires of the Mind Bibliography The City of Love (New Delhi: Penguin, 2007) Empires of the Mind: A History of Oxford University Press in India During the Raj (New Delhi: OUP, 2006) Signal Red: A Novel (New Delhi: Penguin, 2005) Plus sundry short stories, articles and chapters in books Associated publishers Penguin India Bhatkal & Sen Seagull Tara Translations Titu Mir, by Mahasweta Devi Apon Katha: My Story, by Abanindranath Tagore Review links http://rimibchatterjee.net Womenswriting.com is happy to pass on any requests for contact details to the author. Please write to us at womenswriting@gmail.com  Perform another search |
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