Chinmoy Guha, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Chinmoy Guha

Bengali writer

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1958

Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Profession: writer, translator, Rabindra Bharati University, literary critic

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Chinmoy Guha (born in September 1958 in Kolkata, India) is a professor and former Head of Department of English at the University of Calcutta, a Bengali essayist and translator, and a scholar of French language and literature.
He has been the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University and Director of Publications, Embassy of France, New Delhi.
Earlier he taught English at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College in Kolkata for more than two decades, and French at the Alliance Française and the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture for eleven and five years respectively.He has won the Lila Ray award of the Government of West Bengal in 2008 and the Derozio bicentenary award in 2010.
He has been awarded knighthoods by the ministries of Education and Culture of the Government of France, in 2010 and 2013.
Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi and the Government of West Bengal conferred on him Vidyasagar Puroshkar in 2017.
The French President conferred on him in November 2019 the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite for his contribution to intercultural exchange.