Summary
Mitra Phukan (Assamese: মিত্ৰা ফুকন) is an Indian author who writes in English. She is also a translator, columnist, and trained classical vocalist. She currently lives in Guwahati, Assam.[1][2]
Mitra Phukan | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Period | 1986–present |
| Genre | Fiction, translation, essays. |
| Notable works | The Collector's Wife |
Biography edit
Her published literary works include four children's books, a biography, three novels, "The Collector's Wife" "A Monsoon of Music" (Penguin-Zubaan) and "What Will People Say?" (Speaking Tiger), several volumes of translations of other novels and a collection of fifty of her columns, "Guwahati Gaze". Her recent works include a biography on Bhupen Hazarika (Sahitya Akademi).[citation needed]
She writes extensively on Indian music as a reviewer and essayist. Her works have been translated into many languages, and several of them are taught in colleges and Universities. As a translator herself, she has translated into English the works of some of the best known Assamese writers of fiction, including "Blossoms in the Graveyard", a translation of Jyanpeeth Awardee Birendra Kumar Bhattacharjee's "Kobor Aru Phool" and "Guilt and Other Stories" a translation of Sahitya Akademi awardee Harekrishna Deka's stories.[citation needed]
Among her works is the volume "The Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told", twenty five stories in translation selected and edited by her, and "A Full Night's Thievery", a collection of her own short stories . She writes a column "All Things Considered" in the Assam Tribune.[citation needed]
She is the author of The Collector's Wife (2005),[3] a novel set against the Assam Agitation of the 1970s and 80s.[4] The Collector's Wife was one of the first generation novels in English written by an Assamese writer to be published by an international house.
Phukan is also a trained classical vocalist[5] and writes regularly on music.
Works edit
- Mamoni's Adventures (1986, Children's Book Trust)
- Chumki Posts a Letter (1989, Children's Book Trust)
- The Biratpur Adventure (1994, Children's Book Trust)
- R G Baruah The Architect of Modern Assam (2004, Sahitya Prakash)
- The Collector's Wife (2005, Zubaan/Penguin)
- Terrorist Camp Adventure (2003, Scholastic)
- A Monsoon of Music (2011, Zubaan/Penguin)
- Guwahati Gaze (2013, Bhabani Publishers)
- Blossoms in the Graveyard (2016, Niyogi Publishers)
- A Full Night's Thievery (2016, Speaking Tiger)
- Aghoni Bai And Other Stories (2019, EBH Publishers)
- Patmugi and Other Stories (2021, Assam Sahitya Sabha, with Gayatri Bhattacharjee)
- Guilt and Other Stories (2021, Speaking Tiger)
- The Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told (2021, Aleph. Selected and Edited by Mitra Phukan)
- "What Will People Say?" (2023, Speaking Tiger)
- "Bhupen Hazarika." (2023, Sahitya Akademi)
- "Kahini: A Story of our Times. (By Dhrubajyoti Borah, translated by Mitra Phukan) (2024, Om Books International)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "SAWNET". sawnet.org. Archived from the original on 17 December 2007.
- ^ "Mitra Phukan – Speaking Tiger Books". Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ Profile in Pratilipi
- ^ "The Collector's Wife/Mitra Phukan". Vedamsbooks.com. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ^ "A Bowstring Winter". assamnet.org. Archived from the original on 19 November 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
External links edit
- http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/article2397962.ece?css=print
- Fiction : "The Reckoning"
- Fiction : "The Homecoming"
- Fiction : "Spring song"
- Italian translation of Mitra Phukan's Short Story "Spring Song"
- https://literaryjournal.in/index.php/clri/article/view/57/77
- https://www.audible.in/pd/A-Monsoon-of-Music-Audiobook/B07J5BPWFD
- https://literaryjournal.in/index.php/clri/article/view/57/77
- http://www.jellonline.com/index.php/jell/article/view/N9V2.309