Sunetra gupta biography of abraham

Sunetra Gupta is an acclaimed novelist, essayist and scientist. In October 2012 her fifth novel, So Good in Black, was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.

In 2009 she was named as the winner of the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her scientific achievements.

Sunetra gupta biography of abraham

Sunetra, who lives in Oxford with her husband and two daughters, is Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at Oxford University's Department of Zoology, having graduated in 1987 from Princeton University and received her PhD from the University of London in 1992.

Sunetra was born in Calcutta in 1965 and wrote her first works of fiction in Bengali. She is an accomplished translator of the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore.

Sunetra's childhood and her family's peripatetic lifestyle have had a great impact on her work.

Her early years were spent moving between Ethiopia, Zambia and England. When she was 11 the family returned to Calcutta, a city which con