Mitra Phukan | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Period | 1986–present |
| Genre | Fiction, translation, essays. |
| Notable works | The Collector's Wife |
Mitra Phukan (Assamese: মিত্ৰা ফুকন) is an Indian author who writes in English. She is also a translator, columnist, and trained classical vocalist. She currently lives in Guwahati, Assam.[1][2]
Her published literary works include four children's books, a biography, three novels, "The Collector's Wife" "A Monsoon of Music" (Penguin-Zubaan) and "What Will People Say?" (Speaking Tiger), several volumes of translations of other novels and a collection of fifty of her columns, "Guwahati Gaze". Her recent works include a biography on Bhupen Hazarika (Sahitya Akademi).[citation needed]
She writes extensively on Indian music as a reviewer and essayist. Her works have been translated into many languages, and several of them are taught in colleges and Universities. As a translator herself, she has translated into English the works of some of the best known Assamese writers of fiction, including "Blossoms in the Graveyard", a translation of Jyanpeeth Awardee Birendra Kumar Bhattacharjee's "Kobor Aru Phool" and "Guilt and Other Stories" a translation of Sahitya Akademi awardee Harekrishna Deka's stories.[citation needed]
Among her works is the volume "The Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told", twenty five stories in translation selected and edited by her, and "A Full Night's Thievery", a collection of her own short stories . She writes a column "All Things Considered" in the Assam Tribune.[citation needed]
She is the author of The Collector's Wife (2005),[3] a novel set against the Assam Agitation of the 1970s and 80s.[4] The Collector's Wife was one of the first generation novels in English written by an Assamese writer to be published by an international house.
Phukan is also a trained classical vocalist[5] and writes regularly on music.
