Polie Sengupta

About Polie Sengupta

Poile Sengupta’s work straddles five decades and many genres of writing. She is a playwright, poet, novelist and short fiction writer both for children and adults. Her humour column ‘A Letter to You’ – letters from a ten year old boy Perky – ran for over three decades in Children’s World, New Delhi in the 1960s. She has written columns for children in numerous other papers including Deccan Herald and Times of India, Bangalore. She has over a dozen books, and two dozen anthology entries for children. Her latest, A Time for Ebby, is a Chapter book from Karadi Tales, 2021. Poile Sengupta’s first novel for adults, Inga was published in 2014 by Tranquebar Press. In 2012, her short story ‘Ammulu’ was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Regional award, and was later included in the Best Asian Short Stories, Kitaab International, 2017. Six of Sengupta’s plays have been published as Women Centre Stage, by Routledge, 2010. She has acted in the films The Outhouse and Shaitan.