BookMeet – The Keeper of Desolation, Author Chandan Pandey, Translator Sayari Debnath
Chandan Pandey is the author of four short-story collections and two novels in Hindi. He has been honoured with many awards including the Bharatiya Jnanpith’s Navlekhan Award. Sayari Debnath, a journalist at Scroll, translates Hindi and Bengali literature to English. “I wrote these stories in the grips of unrelenting restlessness. I look keenly at the strongest walls of our inherent culture and think carefully, until finally, a story glimpses at me,” says Chandan, talking about his stories that are surreal yet gritty, violent but at the same time poetic. “I hope to have done justice to what is truly a distinct voice in contemporary fiction,” says Sayari.
