Chinmoy Guha
Chinmoy Guha | |
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Chinmoy Guha in September 2013 | |
| Born | 10 September 1958 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Occupation | Professor Emeritus of English, essayist, translator, literary critic |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Notable works | Ghumer Darja Thele, Where the Dreams Cross: T.S. Eliot and French Poetry, Bridging East and West: Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland Correspondence 1919-1940 |
| Notable awards | Chevalier des Palmes Académiques; Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres; Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite; Sahitya Akademi Award; Vidyasagar Puroshkar |
| Spouse | Anasuya Guha (Former Professor of English at Bethune College) |
| Children | Surangama Guha |
Chinmoy Guha (born September 1958 in Kolkata, India) is an Indian essayist, translator, and a scholar of French language and literature, currently serving as Professor Emeritus at the University of Calcutta. He has served as the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University and Director of Publications, Embassy of France, New Delhi. Earlier he taught English at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College in Kolkata for more than two decades, and French at the Alliance Française and the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture for eleven and five years respectively.
He has been awarded the Lila Ray Memorial Honour for Translation by the Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi in 2008 and the Derozio Bicentenary Award in 2010. He has been knighted by the ministries of Education and Culture of the Government of France in 2010 and 2013 respectively. Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi and the Government of West Bengal conferred on him the Vidyasagar Smriti Puraskar in 2016. The President of France conferred on him in November 2019 the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite for his contribution to intercultural exchange. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award 2019 in Bengali for his collection of essays Ghumer Darja Thele.