Samim Ahmed writes novels, short stories and non-fiction in Bengali. An assistant professor of philosophy in R. K. Mission Vidyamandir, an autonomous post-graduate college, he is the author of eight published books and a regular contributor in reputed dailies in Bengali and English. Samim was born in 1973 in Birbhum district, West Bengal, and grew up in Murshidabad and Kolkata. He lives and writes in Kolkata.
Saat Aasman ('Seven Heavens') is his first novel.
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction into English. Over twenty-five of his translated works have been published so far. He has won the Crossword translation award twice, for Sankar's Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri's Seventeen (2011), respectively and has been shortlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2009) for his translation of Chowringhee.
His translations have been published in the UK and the US in English, and in several European and Asian countries through further translation. He was born and grew up in Kolkata, and lives and writes in New Delhi.