Tala Tudu is an Indian writer of Santali language and nurse from Jharkhand. She won Sahitya Akademi Award for Santali Translation in 2015. She was born in 1972.

Biography

Tudu is Rabindranath Murmu's sister. She was a student of Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial College.

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Tudu translated Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel Parineeta into Santali titled Baplanij. It was her first translation. For this work she was awarded Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 2015.

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Tudu is married to Ganesh Tudu, an advocate by profession. They have a daughter and a son. Their names are Anisha and Ashish.

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References

Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation into Santali

Living people

Indian women translators

Kolhan University alumni

Indian women nurses

Santali people

Santali writers

Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation

1972 births