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SulagnaMukhopadhyay completed her M asters in Comparative Literature from JU and English Literature from Jodhpur N ational U niversity. She has completed German Language Course till C1 from Goethe-Institut/M ax M ueller Bhavan

Kolkata Sulagna teaches in the primary

D epartment of an English -medium private school, South Point School and German Language Trainer at JU She is also translator She translates from German to Bengali. Three of her translated books have got published from JU ( Kathrin Schmidt's poems :N odi o D ebdut), a novel (Isabel Fargo Cole's novel : Sobuj Simana) and a collection of short stories from Rritobak( M arkus Kirchhofer's book: Kanta) Currently she is working on Christa

W olf's novel D er geteilte H immel, M elinda N adj

A bonji's novel Tauben fliegen auf, H annah

A hrendt's D ie Freiheit Frei Zu Sein, Sun Tzu's The

A rt of W ar She has learnt Bharatnatyam, the Indian Classical D ance form from southern India and was also a dance critic for The Telegraph for 10 consecutive years. She has participated as an actor in a Bengali theatre group Sangbarta between 1985 and 1993.