Chinmoy Guha
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| Born | 10 September 1958 Kolkata, India |
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Professor of English at the University of Calcutta, Bengali essayist and translator and a scholar of French language and literature. Former Vice-Chancellor, Rabindra Bharati University; former editor, Book Reviews, Desh ; former director of publications, Embassy of France in India. |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Spouse | Anasuya Guha (Professor of English at Bethune College) |
| Children | Surangama Guha |
Professor of English at the University of Calcutta, Bengali essayist and translator and a scholar of French language and literature.
Chinmoy Guha (born in September 1958 in Kolkata, India) is a Professor and former Head of Department of English at the University of Calcutta, a Bengali essayist and translator, and a scholar of French language and literature. He has been the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University and Director of Publications, Embassy of France, New Delhi. Earlier he taught English at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College in Kolkata for more than two decades, and French at the Alliance Française and the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture for eleven and five years respectively.
Guha has edited Boier Desh and the Book Reviews of Desh, a literary journal of Bengal from 2003 to 2012, where he wrote the column Boier Janala for ten years. He wrote a regular column called Ghumer Darja Thhele in Robbar, Sangbad Pratidin.
He has won the Lila Ray award of the Government of West Bengal in 2008 and the Derozio bicentenary award in 2010. He has been awarded knighthoods by the ministries of Education and Culture of the Government of France, in 2010 and 2013. Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi and the Government of West Bengal conferred on him Vidyasagar Puroshkar in 2017.
Guha was educated at Jagadbandhu Institution, in south Kolkata, before studying English literature at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta and completing his M. A. in English at the University of Calcutta in 1980. He completed his PhD on the Impact of French poets on T. S. Eliot (1996) from Jadavpur University where he was a Teacher Fellow for one year.
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