94: Bhaswati Ghosh - Author of Victory Colony, 1950
In my interview with Bhaswati, we discuss how her grandmother's short stories about life as a Pakistani during the partition of India in 1947 provided the seed for her story, how she had to drop a fascinating plot line because she could not locate the necessary historical research, and the difference between the non-fiction writing she's done throughout her career and the tools she needed to learn to flesh out her debut novel.
Bhaswati Ghosh writes and translates fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her first book of fiction is 'Victory Colony, 1950'. Her first work of translation from Bengali…
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