The Continents Between

Bani Basu is arguably the most versatile contemporary writer in Bengali, the broad range of her fiction deals with gender, history, mythology, society, psychology, adolescence, music, sexual orientation, the supernatural, and more. Besides writing novels and short stories, she is also an essayist, critic and poet. She has won a number of literary awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award. She lives and writes in Calcutta. Debali Mookerjea–Leonard is the Roop Distinguished Professor of English at James Madison University. She is a gold medallist in comparative literature from Jadavpur University, Calcutta and holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. Her work has been supported by the American Association of University Women, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities