Arunava Sinha

Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over 70 of his translations have been published so far in India, the UK and the USA. He teaches at Ashoka University, where he is also the co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation, and is the Books Editor at Scroll.in.

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Fiction

128 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published June 2023
ISBN 9781922725455

Based on real-life events, Hospital is a daring literary account of a young woman’s experience of psychosis. The debut novel from Bengali-Australian writer Sanya Rushdi, translated by the award-winning Arunava Sinha, it is unflinching in its portrayal of mental illness, while challenging society’s definitions of sanity.

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