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Shumona Sinha
Born in 1973 in Calcutta, Shumona SINHA is a French Academy award-winning author for her contribution to the French language and literature (2014) and a naturalized French citizen who has lived in Paris since 2001. Her harsh but multilayered poetical literary reckoning with France’s asylum system, Down with the Poor!, was critically acclaimed in France and abroad. It won the Valéry Larbaud Award in France, was on the short list for the Renaudot Award, won the Internationaler Literaturpreis in Berlin, and was adapted to theater in Germany and Austria. Her latest books are published by Gallimard. Translated into English, German, Italian, Hungarian, and Arabic, Shumona SINHA’s books are the subject of studies in universities in France, Germany, the U.S., and India. An international conference series on her literary work will take place in July 2023 at the Passau University (Germany). Her interviews are available on France 5/La Grande Librairie, France 2, France 3, Arte, France Culture, France Inter, Swiss Radio, German Radio, and Indian TV.
