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'''Rimi B. Chaterjee''' is an author based in [[Kolkata]]. She has published three novels and one academic history book which won the SHARP DeLong Prize for History of the Book in 2007, as well as a number of translations and short stories.<br />
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==Books==<br />
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===Novels===<br />
* ''Black Light''<br />
* ''[[The City of Love]]''<br />
* ''Signal Red''<br />
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====Reviews of ''Black Light''====<br />
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* [http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/black-light-is-historical-fantasy-1524211.html ''The Daily Bhaskar'']<br />
* [http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/sep/030910-Black-Light-journalist-Rimi-B-Chatterjee-sketches-book.htm ''Mid Day'']<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100903232749/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/black-light-through-a-glass-darkly/129998-40-101.html ''IBNLive'']<br />
* [http://www.afternoondc.in/book-review/when-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction/article_7583 ''Afternoon Despatch and Courier'']<br />
* [http://thebookloversreview.blogspot.com/2010/09/review-black-light.html ''The Book Lovers'']<br />
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====Reviews of ''The City of Love''====<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080107014911/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2008/01/06/stories/2008010650270500.htm ''The Hindu'']<br />
* [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071130/asp/opinion/story_8603536.asp ''The Telegraph'' ]<br />
* [http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=e6f728aa-16aa-49d8-9081-48bc4701a914&&Headline=The+fantastic+voyage ''The Hindustan Times'']<br />
* [https://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080713/spectrum/book9.htm ''The Sunday Tribune'']<br />
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===Stories===<br />
* "The Garden of Bombahia", about sixteenth-century scientist and heretic [[Garcia da Orta]], appeared in ''[[Wasafiri]]'' 24(3): pp.&nbsp;98–106.<br />
* "The First Rasa", about a woman printer in Calcutta's nineteenth-century pleasure district, came out in ''Kolkata: Book City: Readings, Fragments, Images'', ed. Sria Chatterjee and Jennie Renton ([[Edinburgh]]: Textualities, 2009).<br />
* "Jessica", about an [[Anglo-Indian]] woman hairdresser of Portuguese descent in a Bengali neighbourhood in Calcutta, came out in ''Vislumbres: Bridging India and Iberoamerica'' 1 (2008): pp.&nbsp;58–9.<br />
* "The Key to All the Worlds", appeared in ''Superhero: The Fabulous Adventures of Rocket Kumar and Other Indian Superheroes'', published by Scholastic India in 2007. {{ISBN|81-7655-821-4}}<br />
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===Graphic stories===<br />
* [https://harpercollins.co.in/book/longform/ "How Zigsa Found Her Way"] in the Longform Anthology published by Harper Collins India.<br />
* "Killer" in Comix India Vol. 2: Girl Power<br />
* "The Bookshop on the Hill" in ''[[Drighangchoo]]'' Issue 3, Kolkata 2010. Part 2 of the story forthcoming in ''Drighangchoo'' Issue 4.<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*''Black Light'' (fiction) (New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2010) [HarperCollins India page {{ISBN|978-81-7223-839-1}}<br />
*''The City of Love'' (fiction) (New Delhi: Penguin, 2007) {{ISBN|0-14-310381-4}}<br />
*''Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj'' (publishing history) (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006) {{ISBN|0-19-567474-X}}<br />
*''Signal Red: A Novel'' (fiction) (New Delhi: Penguin, 2005) {{ISBN|0-14-303262-3}}<br />
*''Apon Katha: My Story'' by [[Abanindranath Tagore]] (translation from [[Bengali language|Bengali]] to English) (Chennai: Tara, 2004)<br />
*''Titu Mir'' by [[Mahasweta Devi]] (Bhattacharya) (translation from Bengali to English) (Calcutta: Seagull, 2000) {{ISBN|81-7046-174-X}}<br />
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==Honors and awards==<br />
* 2007 [[Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing|SHARP]] DeLong Prize for History of the Book (''Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj'')<ref name="sharpweb">{{cite web |title=DeLong Book History Prize Winners {{!}} SHARP |url=https://www.sharpweb.org/main/delong-prize-past-winners/ |publisher=Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing |access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref> <br />
* 2007 English Fiction shortlist, [[Vodafone Crossword Book Award]] (''City of Love'')<ref>{{cite web |title=Book awards: Vodafone Crossword Book Award Shortlist |url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Vodafone+Crossword+Book+Award+Shortlist |website=LibraryThing |access-date=28 June 2021}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://sufinews.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html Sufi News]<br />
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