Parimal Bhattacharya [born in 1964] is a bilingual writer and translator. He has written more than fifteen books in Bengali and English,which fall in the indeterminate category between fiction, memoir, history and travelogue, and cover a range of subjects, from the struggles of a central Indian tribe to the dreams of Andrei Tarkovsky.
সাতগাঁর হাওয়াতাঁতিরা [The Windweavers of Satgaon] is his latest Bengali novel. Field Notes from a Waterborne Land, his most recent in English, was shortlisted for Tata Literature Live Award and for this book he was invited to the Venice Biennale 2023 by the Denmark government.
Parimal went to work in Darjeeling in the 1990s and was smitten by the Himalayas. He has not recovered since; instead, he has written two books on his ailment.
Parimal took voluntary retirement as an associate professor of English at Maulana Azad College, Kolkata in July 2025, and is now a full-time writer, who divides his time between Kolkata and Bhatpara, a small old town by the river Hooghly.
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