Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Anuradha Bhattacharyya was born to Tapan Kumar Bhattacharyya and Chitra Bhattacharyya on 6 December 1975 in Calcutta, India. Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya, the Padma awardee of 2017, was her maternal grandfather.[5] Soon after, her family moved to the Roorkee University campus. She received her education from St. Anne’s Senior Secondary School, Roorkee and Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan. She joined Jadavpur University, Calcutta for a Master of Arts degree in English Literature in 1996.[6] While at Jadavpur University, P. Lal published her first book of poems in 1998 from his publishing house Writers Workshop.[7]

She was Junior Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. She worked in the interdisciplinary research area of psychoanalysis and literature.[8] She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in English Literature in 2005.[9] She joined Post Graduate Government College, Sector-11, Chandigarh as Assistant Professor of English in 2006.[10] She is married and has a daughter.

Her poetry has been published in various literary magazines and anthologies worldwide.[11] Gurdev Chauhan[12] calls her poetry layered. "They open to more than one reading, often to an alternate voice." [13][14]

The Road Taken is her first novel published in April 2015 by Col Mahip Chadha who was the CEO of Creative Crows Publishers, New Delhi. She has published many short stories over and over again in print- and e-journals.

She has received an award of honour Sahitya Shree from Kafla Intercontinental in October, 2016. The Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi in its Annual Award Ceremony, April 2017, accorded the Award of Best Book of the year 2016 to her novel One Word. She was also honoured at the annual festival of poets, Amaravati Poetic Prism[15] held on 11-12 November 2017 at Vijayawada organized by the Cultural Centre of Vijayawada[16]. The Amaravati Poetic Prism is famous for its record representation of Indian poets and Indian languages[17]. She won the fifth prize for her story "Painting Black and Blue" in the International Short Story contest conducted by PoiesisOnline in 2018. It is called the Poiesis Award for Excellence in Literature.[18][19]

Bhattacharyya was one of the awardees on the Republic Day ceremony, 2019 where she was conferred the Commendation Award from the Adviser to Chandigarh Administrator for her extensive work in the field of Art & Culture.[20] At Haridwar Literature Festival, December, 2018, she said, "I write about the unique things I have experienced or observed and I publish them for the benefit of the society".[21] She was present as a Distinguished Guest speaker on the occasion. [22]

In the year 2020 she received the Best Book of the Year Award from Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi for her novel Still She Cried. She also received their grant-in-aid for the publication of her book of poems My Dadu and published it. My Dadu is an illustrated book of poems on her maternal grandfather Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya and contains a short memoir by Chitra Bhattacharyya about her father.[23][24]

Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi Best Book of the Year Award 2019 in the category of English Novel, 2020[25][26]

Commendation Award Republic Day of India, Chandigarh Administration, 2019[27][28]

Poiesis Award for Excellence in Literature PoiesisOnline, 2018[29]

Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi Best Book of the Year Award 2016 in the category of English Novel, 2017[30]

Sahitya Shree from Kafla Intercontinental, 2016[31]

• My Dadu (poems) (New Delhi: Adhyaya Books 2020 ISBN 978-93-88688-71-0)
• Still She Cried (novel) (New Delhi: Authors Press 2019 ISBN 978-93-88859-73-8)
• One Word (novel) (New Delhi: Creative Crows Publishers 2016 ISBN 978-93-84901-28-8)[32]
• Twentieth Century European Literature – a cultural baggage (academic book) (New Delhi: Creative Crows Publishers 2016 ISBN 978-93-84901-03-5)
• The Road Taken (novel) (New Delhi: Creative Crows Publishers 2015 ISBN 978-93-84901-07-3)
• The Lacanian Author (academic work) (Chandigarh: Kafla Intercontinental 2015 ISBN 978-93-84023-05-8)
• Lofty – to fill up a cultural chasm (poems) (Kolkata: Writers Workshop 2015 ISBN 978-93-5045-100-7)
• Knots (poems) (Kolkata: Writers Workshop 2012 ISBN 978-93-5045-042-0)
• Fifty-Five Poems (Calcutta: Writers Workshop 1998 ISBN 81-7595-294-6)[33]

• "Bus Stand" (in Kafla Intercontinental, Summer 2013, Chandigarh ISSN 2278-1625)
• "If you marry, your father will die" (in e-magazine Indian Review)
• "The Cancer" (in Kafla Intercontinental, Jan-April 2014, Chandigarh ISSN 2278-1625)
• "Night Bus" (in e journal The Bactrian Room, April 2014)
• "Hey Swamiji !" (in e journal The Bactrian Room, Aug 2014)
• "Big Max" (in e journal The Bactrian Room, Aug 2014)
• "Death by Water" (in Kafla Intercontinental, April 2015, Chandigarh ISSN 2278-1625)
• "I love your eyes", (in School Shiksha (print magazine) Dec-Jan 2014-15 & in e-magazine Indian Review.)
• "The Story of a Banana Tree", (in e magazine The Bactrian Room, March 2015, in School Shiksha (print magazine) Feb 2015, & in Little Hands (print magazine) March 2015
• "Classroom" (in Langlit, an online journal, May 2015 ISSN 2349-5189)
• "Death by Water" (in Kafla Intercontinental, Summer 2015, Chandigarh ISSN 2278-1625)
• "Mother Cow" (in School Shiksha Year-6, Vol 9, Jan 2016, RNI: MPBIL2010/34735, ISSN 2394-6938 & in Little Hands, Vol.3 Issue 8, Feb 2016, Thiruvananthapuram, RNI: KERENG/2013/51995)
• "Party" (in Langlit, an online journal, March 2016 ISSN 2349-5189)
• "Order Order" (in e-magazine Indian Review, Sept 2016)
• "The Camel & the Horse" (in Songsoptok, The Writers Blog, Kolkata, Feb 2017 & in Little Hands (print magazine) March 2017)
• "The Pumpkin" (in ANURADHASPHERE, Songsoptok, The Writers Blog, Kolkata, March 2017)
• "The Railway Station Hang-over" (in ANURADHASPHERE, Songsoptok, The Writers Blog, Kolkata, April 2017 & in Little Hands (print magazine) April 2017)
• "Painting Black and Blue" (in School Shiksha (print magazine) Jan 2018.[34]
• "Samosa Express" (in Langlit, an online journal, VOL.5 ISSUE-4 2019, May 2019 ISSN 2349-5189)

As an academic, Dr. Anuradha Bhattacharyya has published critical essays[35] on Buddhism, Jacques Lacan, August Strindberg, Maxim Gorky, Pirandello, Albert Camus, Bertolt Brecht, Peter Weiss, Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Arundhati Roy, Aravind Adiga, Jhumpa Lahiri and Pablo Neruda which are published in various Indian print journals.

• News
• News
• Daggers Drawn and other poems
• The Cobra
• The Weapon of Infamy and other poems
• Book Review of Knots
• Book Review of Lofty
• The Bactrian Room
• Indian Review
• Lacan.com
• Indian Literature
• Google Scholar
• Personal Website