Sarmistha Pritam & Ranjita Biswas

Sarmistha Pritam started her career as a contributor to various Assamese newspapers and magazines and is now a well-known name in the contemporary Assamese literary scene. She has won many prestigious awards like the Assam State Government Literary Award (2015), and the Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia Memorial Award (2021) among others. She is also an advocate for people with spinal muscular atrophy, a severe genetic disorder, from which she has been suffering from childhood. Her autobiography, Atmakathaa, published in 2011, has since been translated into English and Hindi. Apart from novels, she has also penned a children?s book called Aalfulor Sopun. Ranjita Biswas is an independent journalist, author and award-winning translator. She translates from Assamese and has seven published works to her credit, among which are Written in Tears authored by Arupa Patangia Kalita that won the Best Translation Prize in English from Sahitya Akademi in 2017 and The Loneliness of Hira Barua, another of Kalita?s books which won the PFC-Valley of Words Award, 2021. She has also written a coffee table book, a travelogue and several short stories.