Sampurna Chattarji
Mumbai, India Email: sampurna_c@yahoo.co.uk Sampurna Chattarji is a writer, poet and translator. Her poetry features in several journals and anthologies including First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India 2, Wasafiri, The Little Magazine, Chandrabhaga, Poetry India: Millennium Voices, The Journal of the Poetry Society (India), 100 Poets Against the War, the London-based e-zine www.nthposition.com, Talking Poetry (www.openspaceindia.org), Fulcrum Number Four 2005: Give the Sea Change and It Shall Change: Fifty-six Indian Poets (1951-2005). Sampurna’s poetry also features in Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women, an anthology released by the International Museum of Women (IMOW) in San Francisco on March 8 (International Women’s Day), 2006. She has been featured for her poetry in the international documentary ‘Voices in Wartime’ as well as on RTHK Radio 4 Hong Kong. She was the winner of the Charles Wallace India Trust Creative Writing Scholarship 2005, which took her to Edinburgh and the recipient of the Highlights Foundation Scholarship 2006 which took her to New York this summer. She is also the winner of the 2nd prize in the All-India Poetry Competition 2005, organized by the Poetry Society of India and the British Council for her poem ‘Salt’. Her short stories ‘The Saint Who Resurrected a Goat’ and ‘The Stomach’ featured in the London-based Journal Wasafiri and the Canadian Journal Slingshot (in which other contributors included Booker-prize-winning Yann Martel) respectively. She was the winner of the Highly Commended Award (Asia) in the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) Short Story Competition 2001 for her story ‘Burn’, while ‘Relief’ was a finalist in the BBC World Service Short Story Competition 2000. In India, her stories ‘The Quiet Man’, ‘Soup’ and ‘Magic Show’ have appeared in the Sunday Statesman, while ‘Eating the Breeze’ is forthcoming in Atlas: a compendium of cutting-edge contemporary Indian and international writing. She has completed two collections of short stories, and has just finished her first novel. Sampurna is an Executive Committee Member of the PEN All-India Centre, Mumbai.
Published works:
Sight May Strike You Blind (Poetry, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, India)
The Greatest Stories Ever Told (Fiction, Penguin India)
Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray (Translation, Penguin India)
Interests: Poetry, fiction, translation, children's writing, nonsense verse and prose
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: No |
