An Unshared Secret and Other Stories by Ketaki Datta
₹300.00
Ketaki Datta is an Associate Professor of English with W.B.E.S. She is a novelist, short story writer, poet, translator, editor and reviewer. She has two novels to her credit, “A Bird Alone” [2008] and “One Year for Mourning” [2014]. She has translated three novels, “Shesh Namaskar: The Last Salute” [Sahitya Akademi, 2013], “Jarasandha’s Paadi: The Voyage” [Booksway, 2009], “Dhruvaputra” by Amar Mitra (in press), Selected Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore in Translation” [Avenel, 2015]. Some of her notable translations are “Kumarsambhab and Sakuntala” in “Pracin Sahitya” [Visva Bharati and CENTIL, J.U.,2017], “Nineteenth Century Women’s Writing and Writing for Women in Translation” [Bhawanipur Education Society College and CENTIL, J.U.,2015], “Pratibha India”, anthologies like “Three Stories” by Tapan Bandyopadhyay [2012] etc. Datta’s umpteen translated stories were published in “Indian Literature” [Sahitya Akademi]. Her “Oral Stories of the Totos” has been recently published by Sahitya Akademi [2021]. Her short stories have been published in different anthologies in India and abroad, and also in The Sunday Statesman, Contemporary Vibes etc. “The Music of Eternity” – A Collection of Poems has been published by Penprints in 2023.
An Unshared Secret and Other Stories
By Ketaki Datta
ISBN 9788196417758
Price – INR 300 | Paperback | 236 Pages
| Weight | 400 g |
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