Indian Science Fiction Writers - Rimi B. Chatterjee, Jayant Narlikar, Samit Basu, D. P. Singh, Vandana Singh (Paperback)

Chapters: Rimi B. Chatterjee, Jayant Narlikar, Samit Basu, D. P. Singh, Vandana Singh. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rimi B. Chatterjee is an author based in Kolkata (earlier Calcutta), India. She has published two novels and one history, as well as a number of translations and short stories. Her third novel Black Light is forthcoming in June 2010. She has been nominated twice for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award, once for fiction and once for translation. She is currently working on a graphic novel called Kalpa and her fourth prose novel, Antisense. Rimi B. Chatterjee was born of expatriate Bengali parents in Belfast, Ulster, then lived for a time in Dorset, UK. She has a younger brother. The family returned to India in 1979. She spent the next seven years in North Bengal where her father, an ENT surgeon, was attached to a clinic. She came to Calcutta in 1986 to continue her education, living with friends and in paying guest accommodation. She went to Modern High School, then Lady Brabourne College (1989-1991) an affiliate of the University of Calcutta to study English literature. Around this time she began writing in earnest, producing mainly poems, but also some short stories and plays. She joined Jadavpur University for her MA degree in English (1991-1993). She worked for a few months for the Telegraph newspaper, Calcutta, before leaving for the University of Oxford to do doctoral research. She initially intended to do this on the piracy of P.B. Shelley's works by his contemporaries, but under the guidance of William St Clair, who was already working on this topic for the book that ultimately became The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, she moved instead in the direction of studying publishing history in India. Eventually she resea...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=651798