Parimal Bhattacharya [born in 1964] is a bilingual writer and translator. He has written more than fifteen books  in Bengali and English, which  explore the borderlines between fiction, memoir, history and travelogue, and cover a range of subjects, from the struggles of a central Indian tribe to the cinema 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 popular books on his ailment - No Path in Darjeeling is Straight and Bells of Shangri-la, of which the first one is on the English literature syllabus of North Bengal University. 

His writings have appeared in leading journals and anthologies, and he has been invited to literary events and festivals across India and abroad. As a translator, he has introduced diverse literatures ranging from ecology to genocide to Bengali readers.

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 based in Kolkata and Bhatpara, a small old town by the river Hooghly. When not writing, Parimal loves travelling and spending time with his pet cat, Mao. 

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