Rohini Chowdhury
Rohini Chowdhury is an established literary translator and the author of more than 20 children's books. Her literary interests include mythology, folklore, mathematics, and history.
Her primary languages as a translator are pre-modern and modern Hindi, and English. Her translations include the seventeenth-century Braj Bhasha text Ardhakathanak, widely regarded as the first autobiography in an Indian language, as well as Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas, the sixteenth-century retelling of the story of Rama, unanimously regarded as the greatest achievement of Hindi literature.
Rohini is also interested in the preservation of folk literature and traditional stories. She runs the story website www.longlongtimeago.com and co-authors The Story Birds on Substack.
She also writes Eaten by a Fish, a research-based publication on Indian literature, on Substack.
Born and educated in Kolkata, India, Rohini now lives and writes in the UK.
