About Kingshuk Sarkar

Kingshuk Sarkar (born 1970) lives in Kolkata, India and works as a Spanish teacher and translator. His English poems have appeared in Palette Poetry, Stringtown Magazine, and Northwest Boulevard. Bengali literary magazines like Desh and Godyopodyoprobondho have published his Bengali poems. His translations of Sambhunath Chattopadhyay’s poems from Bengali to English have appeared in Visions International, Kritya, and The Antonym Magazine.

He regularly translates Spanish poetry for Bengali and Assamese literary journals. His translations of Federico Garcia Lorca, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Octavio Paz and Pablo Neruda have appeared in journals like Anushtup (Bengali), Satsori (Assamese), etc.