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- In her last column published on November 3 in a Bengali magazine, writer and academic Nabaneeta Dev Sen, 81, wrote “ Thik achhe.
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Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Nôbonita Deb Sen; 13 January 1938 – 7 November 2019) was an Indian writer and academic. After studying arts and comparative literature, she moved to the US where she studied further.
Nov 13, 2019 · Although she was ill with cancer for a while, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, who died at her home in Kolkata last week, kept writing till weeks before her death. In her last column for the Bengali...
May 13, 2021 · As a young wife and scholar shuttling between America and England, Nabaneeta had stopped publishing poetry for a while, focusing instead on her family, and her pioneering research on the oral origins of epic poetry. When her marriage fell apart, she returned to India with two young daughters.
- A Life in Poetry
- Translating in Absence
- ‘Fidelity’ in Translation
- Conversations with MA
The truth is, my mother couldn’t remember a time in her life when she did not write poetry. Raised by two celebrated poets, Radharani Debi and Narendra Dev, and named by Rabindranath Tagore, she published her first book of poems, Pratham Pratyay (First Confidence), the year she turned twenty-one, just before she left for Harvard. She grew to be bel...
It took me a year, too, to complete Acrobat– much longer than I had planned, perhaps unrealistically, considering that the book represents six dynamic decades of poetry. What made the process especially difficult was having to remind myself every day that my mother was gone. Each poem brought back her booming voice; she was so close, yet so far awa...
Poetry is perplexing to translate, as we know. Even more so when the rawness and intricacy of emotion are mirrored by complex rhyming and rhythmic structures, underscored by repetitions that are sublimely melodious or pointedly dissonant. My mother also had an extraordinary talent for creating new words, powerful neologisms that fit perfectly and i...
In the last year, I’ve used my mother’s poetry to keep her close. I’ve held on to each poem like it was a letter from Ma to me. Her words made me feel as if she were right by my side, speaking to me. I could hear her voice, wrapping her words in all its deep Bengali beauty. I’ve spent months poring over every poem, anguishing over each word, revisi...
In this sense, Nabaneeta Dev Sen was a master artist— a hugely popular author and yet one who never diluted her style or substance to make it easy for the common reader and at the same time was a great communicator too!
Jan 25, 2020 · Nabaneeta Dev Sen (January 13 1938 - November 7, 2019) was one of the most beloved, versatile and prolific writers in Bengali literature. Equally expressive in poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, Nabaneeta still has over 100 books in print across the world (includin
