About the author
Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist and translator. Her nine published books include three poetry collections?Absent Muses, The Fried Frog and Sight May Strike You Blind; and two novels?Rupture and Land of the Well. Her translation of Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray is now a Puffin Classic titled Wordygurdyboom! Her poetry has been translated into German, Swiss-German, Irish, Scots, Welsh, French, Tamil, Manipuri and Bambaiyya; and her children?s fiction into Welsh and Icelandic.
Sampurna is the editor of Sweeping the Front Yard, an anthology of women?s writing in English, Malayalam, Telugu and Urdu. She was the 2012 Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Kent, Canterbury. More about her writing can be found at sampurnachattarji.wordpress.com.
