Arunava Sinha

Arunava Sinha is a noted Indian translator of Bengali literature. He was born and raised in Kolkata. He won the Crossword translation award, for Sankar’s Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri’s Seventeen (2011), respectively, 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.

Sinha is currently based in New Delhi.

List of translations

• Seven Heavens - Samim Ahmed - 2015 - Hachette
• A Mirrored Life - Rabisankar Bal - 2015 - Random House
• The Fifth Man - Bani Basu - 2014 - Random House
• The Love Letter & Other Stories - Buddhadeva Bose - 2014 - Rainlight
• The Merry Tales of Harshabardhan and Gobardhan - Shibram Chakraborty - 2014 - Hachette
• Panty - Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - 2014 - Penguin Random House
• Tagore for the 21st Century Reader - Rabindranath Tagore - 2014 - Aleph
• You are Neera - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 2014 - Harper-Collins
• The Magic Moonlight Flower and Other Enchanting Stories - Satyajit Ray - 2014 - Red Turtle
• The Master and I - Soumitra Chatterjee - 2014 - Supernova
• Kalabati The Showstopper - Moti Nandy - 2014 - Scholastic
• Black Rose - Buddhadeva Bose - 2013 - Harper-Collins
• Sabotage & Other Stories - Anita Agnihotri - 2013 - Aurum Press
• Abandon (Ruho) - Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - 2013 - Harper-Collins
• Dozakhnama - Rabisankar Bal - 2012 - Random House
• Wonderworld and Other Stories - Sunil Gangopadhyay - 2012 - Supernova
• The Rhythm of Riddles: Three Byomkesh Bakshi Mysteries - Saradindu Bandyopadhyay - 2012 - Puffin
• 17 ( short stories) - Anita Agnihotri - 2011 - Zubaan
• Fever (Mahakaler Rather Ghora) - Samaresh Basu - 2011 - Random House
• Harbart - Nabarun Bhattacharya - 2011 - Tranquebar
• When The Time Is Right (Tithidore) - Buddhadeva Bose - 2011 - Penguin India
• Three Women: Nashtaneer, Dui Bon, Malancha - Rabindranath Tagore - 2010 - Random House India
• The Chieftain's Daughter (Durgeshnandini) - Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay - 2010 - Random House India
• What Really Happened & Other Stories - Banaphool - 2010 - Penguin India
• By The Tungabhadra - Saradindu Bandyopadhyay - 2010 - Harper-Collins India
• There Was No One At The Bus-Stop - Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay - 2010 - Penguin India
• Illicit - Dibyendu Palit - 2010 - Penguin India
• Striker, Stopper - Moti Nandy - 2010 - Hachette India
• The Middleman (Jana Aranya) - Sankar - 2009 - Penguin India
• My Kind of Girl - Buddhadeva Bose - 2009 - Random House India, Archipelago Books USA
• The Director's Mind - Ujjal Chakraborty - 2009 - Alchemy
• Chowringhee - Sankar - 2007 - Penguin India, Atlantic UK