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Kunal Basu

Indian author · India · On the map · Writers · Born 1956 · age 70

Kunal Basu is an Indian author of English fiction who has written five novels - The Opium Clerk (2001), The Miniaturist (2003), Racists (2006), The Yellow Emperor's Cure (2011) Kalkatta (2015) and Sarojini’s Mother (2020).

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The title story of his only collection of short stories, The Japanese Wife (2008), was made into a film by the Indian filmmaker Aparna Sen. Basu has also written four Bengali novels - Rabi-Shankar (2016), Bairer Dorja (2017), Tejoswini O Shabnam (2018) and Angel(2020)

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Writers
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Born 1956 · age 70