Arunava Sinha

About

Arunava Sinha is an Indian translator, former journalist, and professor of creative writing at Ashoka University, Haryana. He is also the co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation. His work mainly involves translating Bengali fiction and nonfiction, both classical and contemporary, into English, as well as translating from English into Bengali. As of 2025, over ninety of his translations have been published. He has received translation awards and has been shortlisted for others, both in India and abroad. He has conducted translation workshops at institutions including the British Centre for Literary Translation (UEA), the University of Chicago, the Dhaka Translation Centre, and Jadavpur University, and has worked with translators internationally.