Ketaki Kushari Dyson

In an interview with Voice of America in 2011,[3] Ketaki Kushari Dyson spoke at length of the deep influence of Rabindranath Tagore and Buddhadeb Bosu's works in her early life and introduction to poetry. She began writing poetry at the age of four and recalls Sishu (1903), a collection of Bengali poems for children by Tagore, as the first book she read, followed by Katha-O-Kahini (1908).

Ketaki Kushari Dyson was educated in Kolkata, India at Calcutta University, where she studied English Literature, and at The University of Oxford, UK. Her doctoral thesis at Oxford University, entitled 'Various Universe: The Journals and Memoirs of British Men and Women in the Indian Subcontinent, 1765-1856', explores the writings of British men and women on their experiences of the Indian subcontinent from the early rule of the East India Company (Company Raj), until just before the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ( Indian Mutiny).

Ketaki Kushari Dyson has, remarkably continued to write both in her native Bengali was well as in English. She has published extensively in both languages. Her body of work to date includes numerous volumes of poetry, translations (mostly of poetry by Rabindranath Tagore and Buddhadeb Bosu, collections of essays, a volume of autobiographical sketches, two Bengali novels, scholarly studies of early British colonists in India and of Victoria Ocampo, and Bengali plays (one of them translated into English).[4] Her novel, Notan Notan Payra Guli, which was published in instalments in the Bengali magazine Desh (1981–82) was deemed an instant success.[4] In this novel, Kushari Dyson depicts contemporary life and struggle of immigrants in Britain, through the eyes of a Bengali woman.

• Ananda Puraskar (1986 and 1997)
• Bhubanmohini Dasi Medal of the University of Calcutta for eminent contribution to contemporary Bengali letters (1986)
• Star Ananda Award in Bengali Literature