Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Puffin issues two Ray classics

Puffin India is publishing two new exciting titles, The Diary of a Space Traveller and Other Stories and One Dozen Stories by Satyajit Ray, with an introduction by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

They have translated from the Bengali by the author and Gopa Majumdar. Satyajit Ray (1921–92) was one of the greatest film-makers of his time. In 1992, he was awarded the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In the same year he was also honoured with the Bharat Ratna.
Ray was also a writer of repute, and his short stories, novellas, poems and articles, written in Bengali, have been immensely popular. He has published several books in Bengali, most of which became bestsellers. He is also the author of the famous Feluda stories, the translations of which are available in Penguin.

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