Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay was born in 1974 in Durgapur in Paschim Bardhaman district. She was educated at Bagbazar Multipurpose School and later at Gokhale Memorial Girls' College.^[4]

In 2001, Bandyopadhyay's poetry was published in the Bengali literary magazine, Desh.^[4] Having moved to Kolkata in 1996, in 2016, she relocated to London to live with her husband, a British citizen.^[2]

Since the publication of her debut novel, Shankini, in 2006, Bandyopadhyay has written fourteen novels and over sixty five short stories.^[5][6] Her work experiments with atypical narrative styles and explores themes of sexuality, class, fate and identity.^{[7][8][9][10][11]} Due to social taboos, her depictions of female sexuality in particular have made Bandyopadhyay controversial in India.^[12][13]

In 2017, Arunava Sinha's English translation of Bandyopadhyay’s The Yogini was a winner of a PEN Translates Award.^[14][15]

• Shankini (শঙ্খিনী), Ananda Publishers, 2006. ISBN 978-81-7756-583-6^[16][6]
• Panty and Other Stories (প্যানটি ও অন্যান্য গল্প), Ananda Publishers, 2006. (Panty, Hamish Hamilton, 2014; trans. Arunava Sinha). ISBN 9788177566055 (Bengali); ISBN 9780670087020 (English)^[17][18][19]
• Abandon (রুহ্‌), Ananda Publishers, 2008. (Abandon, HarperCollins Publishers India, 2013; trans. Arunava Sinha). ISBN 978-93-5029-655-4 (English)^[12][20][21]
• Ghats (ঘাট), Ananda Publishers, 2010. ISBN 978-81-7756-927-8^[22]
• The Yogini (যোগিনী), Ananda Publishers, 2009. (The Yogini, Titled Axis Press, 2019; trans. Arunava Sinha). ISBN 978-81-7756-784-7 (Bengali); ISBN 978-1-911284-27-7 (English)^[23][24][25]
• Hidden Treasure, Zubaan Publishers, 2024; trans. Ipsa S. ISBN 9788194253341^[5]