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Nileena Abraham | |
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| Born | (1925-07-27)27 July 1925 (age 100) India |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, translator |
Nileena Abraham (néeDutta) (born 27 July 1925) is a writer and translator fromKerala, India. She was born inPabna.[1] After earning master's degrees inBengali language, political science and history, she moved to Kerala and worked as a professor of Bengali atMaharaja's College,Ernakulam and as the Dr.Suniti Kumar Chatterji Professor of Bengali atInternational School of Dravidian Linguistics,Thiruvananthapuram.
She has translated more than eight Bengali works intoMalayalam and ten Malayalam works into Bengali. She was awarded theSahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 1989 for Bengali translation ofPathummayude Adu and Balyakalasakhi, a collection of Malayalam short stories byVaikom Muhammad Basheer.[2] She lives in Ernakulam and is married to Abraham Tharyan.[3][4]
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