Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya is an Indian poet, translator and literary critic writing in Bengali and English. She won First Prize at the All India Poetry Competition in 1991 organized by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with the British Council.
Biography
Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya was born in 1927. She taught at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Fergusson College, Pune. She was also a Professor of Philosophy at Nowrosjee Wadia College.
She is the author of The Owl and Other Poems and The Touch Me Not Girl. Her translation works are unique works of transcreation, and her translations include the songs of Rabindranath Tagore.
Rajlukshmee Debee was All India Poetry Prize winner in 1991 for her poem Punarnava (‘’The Ever Renewing’’). Rajlukshmee was also on the Jury for the first ever All India Poetry Competition for School Children held in 1996.
Selected works
Books
- ‘’The Owl and Other Poems’’, Writers Workshop, Kolkata India 1972
- ’’The Touch Me Not Girl’’, Disha Publishers, New Delhi India 2000.
- ’’28 Songs of Rabindranath Tagore’’, Writers Workshop, Kolkata India 2002.
Articles
- Personal Man and Personal God ‘’International Philosophical Quarterly’’ Volume-15, December 1975.
- Because He is a Man ‘’Cambridge Journal’’ Volume 49, Issue 175, January 1974.
- ‘’The Waste Land of Bengali Fiction’’, "Indian Writing Today", Volume-3, Number-3, July–September 1969
See also
References
- "Third National Poetry Competition - Prize winning poems".
- Indian Writing Today. Nirmala Sadanand Publishers. 1969. p. 188. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- "Literature: Special Series; Faces of the Millennium". Archived from the original on 11 August 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- Chatterjee, Debyam (2005). Indian Literature. Sahitya Akademi. p. 97. ISBN 9788126019434. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- "First All India Poetry Competition for Children".
- Clack, Beverley, ed. (2016). Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition: A Reader. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781134947331. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
Sources
- "Ghosts", The Little Magazine, ‘’Rules of Love’’
- Contemporary Indian English Poetry – Challenges and Response
- Nations of the Soul and Female Poetic Activism – Rajlukshmee Debee’s ‘’Punarnava’’ Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
External links
Categories:- 20th-century Indian translators
- English-language poets from India
- Indian literary critics
- 20th-century Indian women writers
- Living people
- 20th-century Indian poets
- Women writers from West Bengal
- Indian women literary critics
- Indian women poets
- 20th-century Bengali poets
- Bengali-language poets
- Bengali female poets
- 1927 births
- Bengali Hindus
- 20th-century Bengalis
- All India Poetry Prize
- University of Calcutta alumni
- Academic staff of IIT Kharagpur