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Ujjal Singha is a Sahitya Akademy prize winning poet based in Kolkata. Born in Garshimula village of Jamtara district in Jharkhand, Singha obtained his master's degree in Bengali from University of Calcutta.He first started off as an official in a nationalised bank in Kolkata and kept on writing poetry and other literary works. He quit job in 2001 to become a full-time poet. He is also an essayist and translator into Bengali from Hindi, English and French.He received Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 2009 for translating (a novel of Krishna Sobti) into Bengali from Hindi. He also translated poems of French poet Franck André Jamme (Franck André Jamme).He has more than 20 books of poems and translations.He has been editing a poetry magazine Ghorswar for over 25 years. A Senior Research F

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  • Ujjal Singha is a Sahitya Akademy prize winning poet based in Kolkata. Born in Garshimula village of Jamtara district in Jharkhand, Singha obtained his master's degree in Bengali from University of Calcutta.He first started off as an official in a nationalised bank in Kolkata and kept on writing poetry and other literary works. He quit job in 2001 to become a full-time poet. He is also an essayist and translator into Bengali from Hindi, English and French.He received Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 2009 for translating (a novel of Krishna Sobti) into Bengali from Hindi. He also translated poems of French poet Franck André Jamme (Franck André Jamme).He has more than 20 books of poems and translations.He has been editing a poetry magazine Ghorswar for over 25 years. A Senior Research Fellow working on poetry and poetics by Department of Culture, and was awarded the Government of India Prize for a book written on environmental pollution. (en)
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  • Garshimula village in Jamtara District, Jharkhand, India (en)
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