Sutapa Basu


Sutapa Basu is an Indian author, most known for her works Dangle, Padmavati and Genghis Khan.

Education and Work

Basu was born in Bankura, West Bengal. She graduated from Convent of Jesus and Mary at Ambala. She completed graduation with Honours in English Literature from Visvabharati University, Santiniketan and post graduation from HN Bahuguna University, Uttarakhand. She also holds a teaching degree from Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Vadodara. Sutapa has worked with Oxford University Press, Encyclopædia Britannica and Readomania. She lives in Delhi with her husband, an ex-Army Colonel.

Writing

Basu is the author of Dangle and Padmavati. She was the editor of Chronicles of Urban Nomads, Crossed and Knotted, Rudraksha - When Gods Came Calling and a contributor to Defiant Dreams and When They Spoke. Sutapa Basu won the first position for writing a short story in the genre of mythological-fiction in response to the prompt given by author Amish Tripathi in the 2017 TOI Write India Season 1. Basu was nominated for the Pune International Literary Fest's Anipam Kher Award for Best Debut English Novel in 2017. Basu's story, "Classroom Wiles" that talks about an English Teacher's first day at school, was one of the stories in a play directed by Sujata Soni Bali called "Once Upon a Time."