Chinmoy Guha was born in September 1958. he is a professor and former head of the Department of English at the University of Calcutta. He is a Bengal essayist and translator, and a scholar of French language and literature.
He won the Lila Ray Award of the Government of West Bengal in 2008 and the Derozio bicentenary award in 2010. He has been awarded knighthoods by the Ministries of Education and Culture of the Government of France, in 2010 and 2013.
Paschimbanga Bangla Academi and the Government of West Bengal conferred on him Vidyasagar Puroshkar in 2017. The French President conferred on him in November 2019 the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite for his contribution to intercultural exchange. He won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award 2019 in Bengali literature for his collection of essays Ghumer Darja Thele.
