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The French Institute in India, in collaboration with Apeejay Trust, announces Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee's book "Divan Staliner", a translation of Jean-Daniel Baltassat's Stalin's Couch, the winner of 7th Romain Rolland Book Prize. This ...

Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee, translator of the Bengali version of "Stalin's Couch", won the 7th Romain Rolland Book Prize, awarded to the best translation of a French book into an Indian language. This is the second win for Bengali after Trinanjan Chakraborty's win in 2022. Chatterjee is delighted and expects more French books to be translated into Bengali. The French original by Jean-Daniel Baltassat was also adapted into a movie. The prize aims to promote translating French lit...

Two Indians - Deepa Anappara and Geetanjali Shree - are among five nominees for this years 5,000 euro Emile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature for works translated into French, an award that is supported by the Oxford Book Store.The other ...

New Delhi/Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) Two Indians - Deepa Anappara and Geetanjali Shree - are among five nominees for this years 5,000 euro Emile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature for works translated into French, an award that is supported by the Oxford Book Store.