Bishnupriya Chowdhuri

Bishnupriya Chowdhuri

Managing Editor

A bilingual writer and translator, Bishnupriya leads the editorial team for Antonym Collection publishing. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida, a masters in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University. She translates short fiction, creative non-fiction, memoirs and experimental lyrical prose from Bengali to English. She has edited two anthologies of translated short stories and has published her first translated novel No One As Rano Biswas by Alokparna. Other than writing, she keeps close, her daughter’s hands, afternoon breezes and the jade plants that know everything.

Some of her work

flash fiction pieces Rongili Biswas

Two Flash Fiction Pieces— Rongili Biswas

FLASH FICTION BY RONGILI BISWAS   Image Used for Representation IN PRAISE OF AN ORNATE VASE   He had my cousin’s name but looked very different. To be honest, I no…...
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Transitory Space, Brooklyn, NYC – Leah Oates

Transitory Space photographs are, in essence, artifacts found and formed at the ambiguous territory where the human consciousness interacts with space that appears forever present yet keeps morphing through the ungraspable, corridor of time...
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This Heart, The Sinking Depths…— Shankar Lahiri (Part Two)

Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri    Artwork by Baibhab Bose.  3. I have known her bare back and those wings. She is dusky and tall. Her ebony locks as if free…...
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This Heart, The Sinking Depths…— Shankar Lahiri (Part Three)

Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri    Artwork by Baibhab Bose.  6. Towards the end of the night, a pitch-dark window rattled by an oceanic explosion woke up. Venus shines phosphorescent…...
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This Heart, The Sinking Depths…— Shankar Lahiri (Part One)

Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri    Artwork by Baibhab Bose   1. There, the vein gradually thins out from the leaf’s petiole to infinity. Like those fine reverberating threads…...
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Four Bengali micro fiction by Abhijit Bera

The Wave Seller & Other Stories— Abhijit Bera

Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri    Image used for representation.   House With Ivory Nameplate    One of those houses with ivory nameplates... you enter, and inside it will be…...
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The Shawl – Ansar Uddin

Ansar Uddin is from West Bengal, India. His connection with farming and farm labor runs deep. He has five collection of short stories and three novels to his name thus far. Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri...
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Three Flash Fiction by Romel Rahman

The First Kadamba Of The War & Other Stories— Romel Rahman

The First Kadamba Of The War Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri  That year the price of the Kadamba flowers simply skyrockets. Crestfallen Mansur asks the seller-girl, “What are you pricing really—flowers or liters of oil?” …...
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A bengali lyrical prose by Parimal Bhattacharya

The Drunken Amphora— Parimal Bhattacharya

Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri    Birds guess it first. The eagles, seagulls, and ravens know which one of those monstrous nets, erect skyward along the shoreline, will go down at what exact…...
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