Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee, the Bengali translator of Stalin’s Couch, has won the 7th edition of the Romain Rolland Book Prize.

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Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee, the Bengali translator of Stalin’s Couch, has won the 7th edition of the Romain Rolland Book Prize. Instituted in 2017 by the French Institute in India, it recognises translations of French books into Indian languages, including English. This is the second time a Bengali translator has won the prize, with Trinanjan Chakraborty winning for Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête in 2022. The French original, Le Divan de Staline, by Jean-Daniel Baltassat, has been adapted into a 2016 movie of the same name.


     

     

     

 

     


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