Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern, and contemporary Bengali fiction and nonfiction into English, and English fiction, nonfiction and poetry into Bengali. He also translates from Hindi into English and Bengali. Over ninety of his translations have been published so far. Read More Besides India, his translations have been published in the UK, the US, and Australia in English, and in several European and Asian countries through further translation. Twice the winner of India’s Crossword translation award, for Sankar’s Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri’s Seventeen (2011), and the winner of the Muse India translation award (2013) for Buddhadeva Bose’s When The Time Is Right, he has also been shortlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction prize (2009) for his translation of Chowringhee and for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated YA Book Prize for his translation of Md Zafar Iqbal’s Rasha, and longlisted for the Best Translated Book award, USA, 2018 for his translation of Bhaskar Chakravarti’s Things That Happen and Other Poems. In 2021, his translation of Taslima Nasrin’s Shameless was shortlisted for the National Translation Award in the USA. His translation of Sanya Rushdi’s Hospital has been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and The Stella Prize in Australia in 2024. He is a professor of the practice in the Creative Writing department at Ashoka University, and Co-Director of the Ashoka Centre of Translation.