Ketaki Kushari Dyson

Ketaki Kushari Dyson was born on born 26 June 1940. She was a Bengali-born poet, novelist, playwright, translator, critic, diaspora writer, and scholar. Born and educated in Calcutta (Kolkata), India.

In an interview with Voice of America in 2011, she spoke at length of the deep influence of Rabindranath Tagore and Buddhadeb Bosu’s works in her early life and introduction to poetry. She began writing poetry at the age of four and recalls Sishu (1903), a collection of Bengali poems for children by Tagore, as the first book she read, followed by Katha-O-Kahini (1908).

For her works, she has been given the Ananda Puraskar (1986 and 1997) Bhubanmohini Dasi Medal of the University of Calcutta for eminent contribution to contemporary Bengali letters (1986) and Star Ananda Award in Bengali Literature.