Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri is a poet residing in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She produced collections of Bengali poetry. She was awarded the Krittibas Puraskar in 1998 by the Krittibas Patrika. She is also the recipient of Anita Sunil Kumar Basu Smriti Puraskar by Bangla AcademyKolkata and Sahitya Setu Puraskar 2007 She received the Barna parichay Sharad Samman in 2011.
Career
Her first published work was Panyasamhita . This was followed by Pisachinikabya . She won the "Krittibas Puraskar" literary award in 1998. It is a book of love poems centering on alienation, distorted relationships and loneliness. Chaudhuri authored two works in 1999, Chirantan Galpomala and Radio-Bitan . Abar Prothom theke Poro featured themes of the creation of life—especially childbirth—as well as childhood and society. Meyeder Projatantra brought the poet the Anita-Sunil Basu Smriti Puroskar of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi of 2006. Themes include relationships between women. She wrote in the voice of the womb, which compares itself to the womb of the grandmother and the mother. Another section, "Dharabahik Uponyas", tells about the ongoing journey of communication between women, across time, space and generations. She published one collection of stories, "Meyeder Kichhu Ekta Hoyechhe", including ten stories written between 1989 and 2006. A collection of poetry, Kurukshetra, On-Line, was seen by reviewers as a departure from her usual style, as the book relates to the recent killings and political unrest in Bengal, especially the Nandigram carnage. Recent publications include 'Chhaya-Shoririni', a collection of three novellas. It deals with characters bordering on virtual reality, whose professional and personal life is submerged in a plethora of complex identities created by social networking sites, reality TV and news shows. Yashodhara also is a translator from original French language. She has translated Leonardo Da Vinci by Serge Bremley in 2008.
Complete list of publications by Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri
Complete list of publications by Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri 1996 Panya Samhita 1998 Pisachini Kabya 1999 Chirantan Galpo mala 1999 Radio Bitan 2001 Abar Prothom Theke Poro 2005 Meyeder Projatantro 2007 Kurukkhetro Online 2010 Virtualer Nabin Kishor 2012 Kabita Sangraha 2015 Matribhumi Bumper 2016 Nijhum Grontho 2017 Bhabadehe Swargiya Sangit 2017 Shreshtho Kobita Prose 2007 Bunchi Land 2007 Meyeder kichu ekta hoyeche 2008 Chhaya sharirini 2013 Solitaire 2014 Bishal Bharatiya Laghu Galpo 2017 Electra 2018 Bhalobasar Golpo 2019 Ladies Compartment Translation work 2008 Leonardo da Vinci 2012 Rog O tar Pratikar 2011 Bosquet Bobin Burine er kobita
