Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee taught English Literature at G C College, Silchar (Gauhati University) and
Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He was Regional Secretary of Sahitya Akademi’s Eastern Regional Office at Kolkata and Director of the National Book Trust at New Delhi. Later, he also worked as the Editor of Sahitya Akademi’s prestigious journal Indian Literature and as Director of K. K. Birla Foundation, New Delhi. From 2013 to 2016 he worked as the Editorial Consultant of the Multi-volume Documentation Project of the Rashtrapati Bhavan .
An accomplished translator from Bengali into English and vice versa, his English translations of poetry and fictions of Rabindranath Tagore, and Sunil Gangopadhyay; fictions of Mahasweta Devi, Manik Bandyopadhyay and Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay have all been very well received. He has also translated a Kannada short story collection of U. R. Anantamurthy and a Marathi novel by Viswas Patil into Bengali in collaboration with the original authors. Recipient of the best translator’s award from IBBY Congress at London in 2012, Mr Bhattacharjee has also co-edited a collection of stories of displacement from Assam (Barbed Wire Fence, Niyogi Books) and four volumes of the Best of Indian Literature (1957-2007), published by the Sahitya Akademi.
