| Bani
Basu
Bani Basu’s writing career began
with the publication of her first novel Janmabhoomi
Mathribhoomi, in 1987. Her first collection of short
stories was published in 1992, titled Mohana. Until
her recent retirement, Bani Basu taught English in Howrah
Girls College. Her novels and short stories have been
widely acclaimed and her texts have been translated
into many regional languages as well as English. Apart
from her sixteen novels and story collections Bani Basu
has also translated stories of W. Somerset Maugham and
D.H. Lawrence into Bangla. Responding to the observation
about the ‘commodification’ of literature,
Bani basu wrote in a preface to her collection of short
stories Baba Swader Golpo (Many-Flavoured Stories),
that literature had always been a cultural production,
a consumable commodity. She pointed out, however, that
the profits generated from the sale of books rarely
reached the writer in an organized manner.
Here we produce an extract from her interview.
Interviewer - Dr. C S Lakshmi
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