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| birth_place = [[Assam]], [[India]]
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| occupation = Writer, Art Historian, Academician
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| genre = Assamese literature
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|notableworks = ''Lambada Nachor Seshot'' ''Tritiyottor Golpo'' ''Mockdrill'' ''[[The Black Magic women]]''
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| relatives = Swapnarka Arnan (Son) Khudindra Nath Kandali (Father) Tarulata Kandali (Mother) Monimala Kandali (Sister) [[Mallika Kandali]] (Sister)
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'''Moushumi Kandali''' ({{langx|as|মৌচুমী কন্দলী}}) is a writer, historian and translator from [[Assam]], [[India]].<ref name="Frontlist">{{cite web | url=https://www.frontlist.in/interview-with-dr-moushumi-kandali-on-her-book-the-black-magic-women | title=Interview with Dr. Moushumi Kandali on her book 'The Black Magic Women' | publisher=Frontlist.in | date=23 April 2022 | accessdate=20 May 2023}}</ref><ref name="TW">{{cite web | url=https://thewire.in/books/interview-assam-black-magic-women-moushumi-kandali | title= Assam, the Myth of Black Magic Women and Its Relevance Today | publisher=Thewire.in | date=25 June 2022 | accessdate=20 May 2023 | author=Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty}}</ref> Kandali won the Munin Barkataki Award in 2000 for her first collection of short stories, ''Lambada Nachor Seshot'', which was published in 1998. She is a researcher and writer of fiction as well as art. She works as an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies in [[Tezpur University]], Assam.<ref name="TU">{{cite web | url=http://www.tezu.ernet.in/dtcaf/profile/23 | title=Moushumi Kandali | publisher=Tezpur University | accessdate=30 April 2022}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Kandali graduated from [[Cotton College, Gauhati|Cotton College]], Guwahati. In 1998, she received her master's degree in philosophy with a Gold Medal from [[Gauhati University]]. She then obtained her master's degree in Art History and Aesthetics from MS University, Baroda. She also received her Doctorate in Fine Arts from the same university.<ref name="TU"/>

== Career ==
She translated Salvador Dalí's Diary of A Genius into [[Assamese language]]. She has also translated Mishing folk poetry into English (Listen My Flower-bud : Mishing Oral Poetry of Assam), and it was published by the [[Sahitya Akademi]] in 2008.<ref name="ART of being">{{cite web | url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/art-of-being/article5022298.ece | title=ART of being | publisher=www.thehindu.com | date=14 August 2013 | accessdate=12 May 2023}}</ref> In 2022, an English translation of her story, ''The Black Magic Women'' was published.<ref name="BMW">{{cite web | url=https://penguin.co.in/book/black-magic-women/ | title=The Black Magic Women (Stories from North-east India) | publisher=penguin.co.in | accessdate=12 May 2023}}</ref><ref name="TW"/><ref name="TNIE">{{cite web | url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/2022/may/15/weaving-a-spell-2452794.html | title=Weaving a Spell | publisher=The New Indian Express | date=15 May 2022 | accessdate=20 May 2023 | author=Soumitra Das}}</ref>

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