Rohini Chowdhury

Rohini Chowdhury (born 1963) is a children's writer and literary translator.

Her published writing for children is in both Hindi and English, and includes translations, novels, short stories, and non-fiction.

Chowdhury was born in Calcutta, India, in 1963.

After completing her schooling from Loreto House, she joined Jadavpur University in Calcutta, graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in Economics.

She then decided to pursue a business degree at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, graduating from there in 1986 with a PGDM.

After several years in business consulting and strategy, she became a full-time writer.

In 1997, she moved to London, where she lives with her two daughters.

Chowdhury has published the following literary translations:

She has also published the following children's books:

She has co-edited the following anthology of short stories with South African writer, Zukiswa Wanner:

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Her children's books and short stories have been shortlisted for awards, including the Hindu Young World Goodbooks Non-fiction Award and the New Writer Prose and Poetry Competition, 2001, UK.

As a literary translator, she works mainly in Hindi (pre-modern and modern) and English.

She has translated the 17th century Braj Bhasha text, Ardhakathanak, considered the first autobiography in an Indian language, into modern Hindi and English.

A short extract from the first volume had earlier been published with the permission of the publisher in the journal Modern Poetry in Translation, Songs of the Shattered Throat, 2017, Number 1.

Her most recent translation is that of Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas, which was published by Penguin India in December, 2019.