- Source: Kolkata Poetry Confluence
Kolkata Poetry Confluence is an international multilingual literary fest bringing together poets, translators, poetry publishers and poetry lovers at Kolkata. The event is organised by Antonym Magazine and Bhasha Samsad also includes a poetry book fair.
Organisers
The main organisers of the Confluence are Antonym Magazine and Bhasha Samsad publishers.
Participants
The Confluence is attended by poets and translators in different languages from all over the world. Participants also included leading film and media persons like Sudeshna Roy, Anindya Chatterjee, Abhijit Guha, and Srijato.
The 2022 Event
The Kolkata Poetry Confluence 2022 was organised from June 11-13, 2022 on the theme of "inclusivity". Professor Chaiti Mitra was Director of the Confluence. :-
Award winners
Kolkata Poetry Confluence gave away Jibanananda Das Award and Sonali Ghoshal Award for outstanding works of poetry translation from Indian languages into English. The following are the Jibanananda Das award winners :-
Assamese :- Harshita Hiya for translating Sameer Tanti
Bengali :- Indrani Bhattacharya for translating Mohammad Nurul Huda
Hindi :- Pallavi Singh for translating Anamika
Kashmiri :- Mohammad Zahid for Naseem Shafaie
Marathi :- Santosh Rathod for translating Santosh Pawar
Odia :- Snehaprava Das for translating Saroj Bal
Tamil :- Deepalakshmi Joseph for translating Sukirtharani
Urdu :- Tapan Kumar Pradhan for translating Munawwar Rana
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kolkata Poetry Confluence
- Munawwar Rana
- Jibanananda Das Award
- Saroj Bal
- Jibanananda Das
- Kolkata Book Fair
- 2022 in poetry
- Prabal Kumar Basu
- East India
- Music of Bengal
