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 Sukumar Ray’s Abol Tabol 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 Welshand Icelandic.