Written in Tears - Softcover

Arupa Patangia Kalita is one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Assamese literature. She is a bold and acutely aware chronicler of her time. A teacher of English literature, she has also translated Toni Morrison s Th e Bluest Eye into Assamese. She has published more than fi ft een books besides numerous works in vernacular magazines and many of them have been translated into diff erent Indian languages and English. Th e English translation of her novel Felanee was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award. She has received the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award (1995), Katha award (1998), Sahitya Sanskriti Award (2009), Lekhika Samaroh Sahitya award (2011) and most recently, the Sahitya Akademi Award (2014). Ranjita Biswas received the Sahitya Akademi Award for this translation in 2017. She has edited and translated a collection of Assamese stories, As the River Flows, published by Harper Perennial, Brahmaputra and the Assam Valley, a coffee table book, and a collection of retold folktales from the northeast for children.