Banaras Lit Fest
4th – 7th Feb 2027 Taj Ganges, Varanasi
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Priyanka Sarkar

Priyanka Sarkar is an editor, translator and writer. She has co-edited Writing From the Solitary: An Anthology on Loneliness (Yoda Press and Simon & Schuster 2025). She has translated Mrinal Pande’s Sahela Re (HarperCollins 2023), Shivani’s Bhairavi (Yoda Press and Simon & Schuster 2020) and Chitra Mudgal’s Giligadu (Niyogi Books 2019). 

Sarkar’s translations of short stories from Hindi to English have appeared in anthologies published by Yoda Press, OUP India, Women Unlimited, South Asian Review and Macmillan. Her translations have also featured on Scroll.in and Audible. 

A short story written by her has appeared in Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature. 

As an editor, she has worked with OUP (Assistant Editor) and Random House India (Managing Editor). She was also the head of Editorial at Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd. 

She currently freelances and is associated with the Rama Mehta Writing Grant, which aims to encourage creativity in English, Hindi, Urdu and Rajasthani among unpublished Rajasthani women writers. She is also associated with the Bangalore-based writer’s residency, Sangam House. She is Editor-at-Large and former Translations Editor (Prose) at The Bombay Literary Magazine. She was on the Literature Live! 2024 Literary Awards Jury for Fiction Book of the Year and Fiction First Book and the PublishingNext Industry Awards Jury in 2025. She also reviews books for Indian Literature, Financial Express and Hindustan Times.       

 

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