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'The Return' - translation
'The Return' is Chandreyee's translation of the Bengali short story 'Phera' by Mahua Sen Mukhopadhyay. It won 3rd prize in the Tagore Translation contest run by the literary magazine 'Antonym'. The writer of the original, Mahua is a prolific writer and has also translated 'Dumba Chora' (Chandreyee's One City One Story work) into English.
More about the Bengali author, Mahua and the award below.
Tagore translation contest: Work
3rd place
'The Return' was awarded 3rd prize in the 2021 Tagore Award for translated Fiction from Bengali.
Watch an interview of the translator here.
Watch the judges discuss this story here.
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