Name Rajlukshmee Bhattacharya | ||
Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya is a poet, translator and literary critic of India writing in Bengali and English. She won the First Prize in the All India Poetry Competition in 1991 organized by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with British Council.
Biography
Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya was born in 1927.
She taught at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Fergusson College, Pune. She was also Professor of Philosophy at Nowrosjee Wadia College.
She is the author of The Owl and Other Poems and The Touch Me Not Girl. She has also made beautiful translation of the songs of Rabindranath Tagore. Her translation works are unique works of transcreation.
Rajlukshmee Debee was declared All India Poetry Champion in 1991 for her poem Punarnava (‘’The Ever Renewing’’). Rajlukshmee was also on the Jury for the first ever All India Poetry Competition for School Children held in 1996.