Shumona Sinha is a poet and novelist who grew up in Calcutta, West Bengal. In 1990 she won Bengal’s best young poet award. She started learning French age 22 and moved to Paris a few years later. From 2005 to 2007, she translated and published several anthologies of contemporary French and Bengali poetry in collaboration with her then-husband, the poet Lionel Ray. She has since been naturalised French and her first novel Fenêtre sur l'abîme, was published in 2008. Her second novel, Assommons les pauvres! won the Prix Populiste 2011 and the Prix Valéry-Larbaud 2012. Her third novel, Calcutta (2014), received the Prix du rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises, awarded by the Académie française and the Grand Prix du Roman of the Société des gens de lettres. Her most recent novel, Le testament russe, was published in March 2020 by Éditions Gallimard.
" Les mots s'ajoutaient aux mots. Les dossiers s'entassaient. Les hommes défilaient sans fin. Ils étaient obligés de mentir, de raconter une tout autre histoire que la leur pour tenter l'asile politique. Évidemment on ne croyait presque jamais à leurs histoires. Achetées avec le...
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