Bashabi Fraser
| Bashabi Fraser CBE | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 (age 71–72) |
| 💼 Occupation | Poet, children's writer, editor, translator, academic |
| 🌐 Website | bashabifraser |
Bashabi Fraser CBE (born 1954) is a Indian-born Scottish poet, children's writer, editor, translator, and academic. She is Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University. She has authored and edited 23 books, published several articles and chapters, both academic and creative and as a poet, and has been widely anthologised.
Education and career
Bashabi Fraser earned a BA in English from Lady Brabourne College, University of Calcutta in Kolkata, India; an MA in English from Jadavpur University, also in Kolkata; and then a PhD in English from the University of Calcutta and University of Edinburgh.[1] Fraser was Professor of English and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University and became Professor Emerita at the institution after retirement. She is co-founder and director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs). She is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Literary Studies (ALS), Scotland, and a former Royal Literary Fund Fellow.[1][2]
Fraser specializes in postcolonial literature and theory. Her profile on the ScoTs website states that "Her research and writing reflect her interest in diasporic themes: the intermeshings of culture and identity, of dislocation and relocation, of belonging and otherness, of memory and nostalgia, of third space and hybridity and of conflicts and freedoms."[1] She is chief editor of Gitanjali and Beyond, an academic and creative peer-reviewed online journal associated with ScoTs,[3] and is on the editorial board of WritersMosaic, a platform for writers of colour which is an initiative of the Royal Literary Fund.[4]
Honors and awards
Fraser was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to education, culture and cultural integration in Scotland, in particular her bridge-building projects linking Scotland and India.[5][6] The Saltire Society named her an Outstanding Woman of Scotland in 2015.[7]
Books
- — (1997). Life. London: Diehard. ISBN 9780946230440. Search this book on
- —, ed. (2004). The Tagore-Geddes Correspondence. Kolkata: Visva-Bharati. ISBN 9788175223738. Search this book on
- —; Grieg, Elaine, eds. (2000). Edinburgh: an Intimate City, an illustrated anthology of contemporary poetry on Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Dept. of Recreation, City of Edinburgh Council. ISBN 978-0905072937. Search this book on
- —, ed. (2006). Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed Chapter. London: Anthem Press. ISBN 978-1843312994. Search this book on
- —; Debjani, Chatterjee, eds. (2003). Rainbow World: Poems from Many Cultures. London: Hodder Wayland. ISBN 978-0750242806. Search this book on
- — (2004). Just One Diwali Night: A Children's Story. Kolkata: Das Gupta & Co. ISBN 9788182110045. Search this book on
- — (2004). Tartan & Turban. Edinburgh: Luath. ISBN 9781842820445. Search this book on
- — (2004). Topsy Turvy. Kolkata: Das Gupta & Co. ISBN 9788182110052. Search this book on
- — (2009). From the Ganga to the Tay: a poetic conversation between the Ganges and the Tay. Edinburgh: Luath. ISBN 9781906307950. Search this book on
- — (2011). Scots Beneath the Banyan Tree: Stories from Bengal. Edinburgh: Owl and Lion. ISBN 9780956808103. Search this book on
- — (2012). Ragas and Reels: Visual and Poetic Stories of Migration and Diaspora. Edinburgh: Luath. ISBN 9781908373342. Search this book on
- — (2015). Letters to My Mother and Other Mothers. Edinburgh. ISBN 9781910745144. Search this book on
- —; Mukherjee, Tapati; Sen, Amrit, eds. (2017). Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Continuum of Ideas. Santiniketan: Visva-Bharati. ISBN 9788175226517. Search this book on
- —; Mukherjee, Tapati; Sen, Amrit, eds. (2017). A Confluence of Minds: The Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes Reader on Education and Environment. Search this book on
- — (2017). The Homing Bird. Halwill, Beaworthy: Indigo Scotland. ISBN 9781910834343. Search this book on
- —; Riach, Alan, eds. (2017). Thali Katori, An Anthology of Scottish and South Asian Poetry. Edinburgh. ISBN 978-1912147090. Search this book on [8]
- — (2019). My Mum's Sari. Word Waves. Bright Button Productions. Search this book on
- — (2019). The Ramayana: A Stage Play and A Screen Play. Jaipur, India: Aadi Publications. ISBN 978-93-87799-28-8. Search this book on
- — (2019). Rabindranath Tagore. Critical Lives. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781789141498. Search this book on [9]
- — (2021). Patient Dignity. Edinburgh: Scotland Street Press. ISBN 9781910895542. Search this book on [10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Professor Bashabi Fraser: Director of The Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies". Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ↑ "Bashabi Fraser, CBE". Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ↑ "Editorial Board". Gitanjali and Beyond. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ↑ "Team members". Writers Mosaic. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ↑ "Bengal-born poet bags top UK honour". The Statesman. 25 January 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ "Staff recognised in New Year Honours". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
- ↑ "Sturgeon makes saltire society list". Glasgow Times. 9 March 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ↑ "Poets launch anthology of Scottish and South Asian Poetry". The Scotsman. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ Reviews of Rabindranath Tagore:
- Chatterji, Aditi (8 March 2021). "Traversing space with Rabindranath Tagore: Rabindranath Tagore, by Bashabi Fraser, London, Reaktion Books Ltd, 2019, 248 pp., £11.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781789141498". Postcolonial Studies: 1–3. doi:10.1080/13688790.2021.1894675.
- Kämpchen, Martin (4 March 2022). "Critical lives: Rabindranath Tagore: by Bashabi Fraser, London, Reaktion Books, 2019, 248 pp., £11.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781789141498". Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 58 (2): 284–285. doi:10.1080/17449855.2021.1997227.
- Mandal, Somdatta (3 April 2021). "Bashabi Fraser's Critical Lives: Rabindranath Tagore". The Daily Star. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ↑ Riach, Alan (7 February 2022). "Alan Riach: Poetry books to bring pleasure amid self-serving politics". The National. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
Further reading
- Mallick, Saptarshi (2018). "Professor Bashabi Fraser in Conversation". Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature. 12 (1): 180–195.
- Chakrabarti, Debanjan (21 February 2021). "Rewriting colonial past through culture". The Telegraph.
- Upadhyay, Anjla (2003). "Review of With Best Wishes From Edinburgh Poetry collection". Indian Literature. Sahitya Akademi. 47 (2 (214)): 222–224. ISSN 0019-5804. JSTOR 23341409.
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