My Books
A collection of award-winning works exploring the human condition through poetry and prose
- Honorable Mention award
- New England Book Festival
Cross Stitched Words
Poetry Collection
A collection of prose poems that earned the 'Honorable Mention' award at the New England Book Festival in 2021.
“Cross-Stitched words” is a collection of 45 short, free- verses that attempt to connect and engage the inner life of our hearts, through words, through poetry. The verses address themes such as love, loss, passage of time, impermanence, human frailties, empathy, sorrows, in short, life in its varied existential struggle. The verses are introspective in nature, attempting to translate these encounters into words, that tend to celebrate greater connections. The verses at times rely on vignettes, a series of images, appreciate such simple things, as the world around us and will inspire to contemplate upon life's deeper meanings.
- Runners-Up award
- London Book Festival 2024
The Crossings
War, Migration & Survival
A powerful collection of poems exploring themes of war, migration, and human survival with profound sensitivity.
When individuals trod on tightropes with either side brimming with void, living becomes an alias for death. In that process, when a person is dislocated, the perception of home furthers into annulment. Migrating through spaces creates fear and instills a sense of being constantly on the run. Chaitali Sengupta’s The Crossings: poems on war, migration, and survival is a collection of poems that ideates the voice of migrants after their lives are trampled by war. Sengupta traces the historical topographic spheres battered by war—which, after coming to a standstill, continues to agonize the individual who’s been in that dire situation. These poems work on the refugee chaos and seek haven in quietude from war and persecution.
- Special jury award
- Panorama Literature award festival 2023
- IPPL Translation Book Award 2024
Timeless Tales in Translation
Translation Work
A masterful translation work that received the special jury award at the Panorama International Literature Festival in 2023.
'Timeless Tales in translation' brings together selected short stories (in translation) of the various Bengali and Hindi/Urdu writers from the Indian subcontinent. It includes the notable works of the most well-known Indian writers- Swarnakumari Devi, Rabindranath Tagore, Munshi Premchand, Jaishankar Prasad, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee and others. The stories selected contain some of the most groundbreaking, progressive, and thought-provoking writing in Indian Literature from 1855 to 1955, considered as an important period in the literary history of the subcontinent. A complex body of literature emerged in India during this period. The stories, chosen from that interesting period, cover a wide variety of subjects from historical to social to moral and they give us a glimpse of an intimate portrait of life, bringing out a meticulous picture of rural, semi-feudal India, in the colonial times.
Across the Luminous Realms and Other Tales from Legends, Myths & Fantasy
From Legends, Myths & Fantasy
Chaitali Sengupta has produced a fluent and easy-to-read translation of two collections of stories that have long remained in the shadows, even among Dutch readers. Without adopting all of Couperus’ archaic turns of phrase, her translation nowhere feels forcedly modern. In doing so, she has done Couperus’ text full justice, making a number of relatively unknown but culturally historically very interesting stories accessible to a wide English-reading readers. Mary G. Kemperink
Legends Speak (Bengali Women's Narratives In Translation)
(Paperback, Amita Roy, Chaitali Sengupta, Lopamudra Banerjee)
Chaitali Sengupta has produced a fluent and easy-to-read translation of two collections of stories that have long remained in the shadows, even among Dutch readers. Without adopting all of Couperus’ archaic turns of phrase, her translation nowhere feels forcedly modern. In doing so, she has done Couperus’ text full justice, making a number of relatively unknown but culturally historically very interesting stories accessible to a wide English-reading readers. Mary G. Kemperink
