September 2024

This was my cover for another canonical addition to Jadavpur University Presses’ list of literary translations – two plays by Aimé Césaire, Une Saison au Congo (1966), and Une Tempête, (1969), translated from the French into Bangla by Kanchana Mukhopadhyay and Rita Ray, respectively, as ‘Congote ek ritu’ and ‘Ekti Tufan’.

It occurs to me that the text on the Bangla books I designed are only accessible to those who read the language. So I will write a little more here about each of the books, starting with the first one – Amare dei tomar haate. It is a translation of Inês Pedrosa’s beautifully layered novel, Nas Tuas Mãos (1997) from Portuguese into Bangla by Rita Ray, and published by Jadavpur University Press.