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In 1995, at the age of 22, Shumona Sinha started learning French at
Ramkrishna Mission School of Foreign Languages at Calcutta. She views her decision to study French as her personal post-colonial revolt against English, language of the former colonizers and the second official language of India.
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In 1998, she studied political science and economy at the university of
Calcutta. In 2001, she got a master's degree in French literature and linguistics from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages at
305:, her fifth novel, published in March 2020 by Gallimard (Blanche), she describes the fascination of a young Bengali girl, Tania, for a Russian Jewish editor in 1920 who was the founder editor of Raduga Publishers.
319:, her seventh novel, published in March 2024 by Gallimard (Blanche), she describes the soul searching of a French woman in an ashram in India, and the Hindu hegemony and political violence in current India.
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The novel has become a part of scholarly programs to discuss the questions of identity, exile, writing as a woman, writing in a foreign language, the relationship between literature and politics, at the
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As an adolescent, Shumona was an avid reader, surrounded by books bought by her parents or offered by her maternal aunt, Ratna Basu, a scholar and translator of German into sanscrit.
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was born in a Hindu middle-class family in
Calcutta : her father was a professor of economics and her mother was a high school mathematics teacher. Her parents belonged to the
312:, her sixth book, published in November 2022 by Gallimard (Blanche), she describes her journey from Bengali, her native language, to French, her language of love and création.
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was adapted by several theaters in
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In her interviews for the French media, Shumona Sinha claims that her homeland is no longer India, nor even France, but the French language.
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In the 2000s, she also translated and published several anthologies of
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In 2001, she was recruited by the French embassy in India to become an
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family to describe the violent political history of West Bengal. The book was rewarded by the
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Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
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Grand Prix du Roman de la Société des gens de lettres
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447:(in French). Le Monde. 15 September 2011
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