She attended seven schools and four universities, receiving a BA from the American University in Cairo,Egypt, MA degrees from the University of Kent at Canterbury and Leeds Beckett University, and a PhD from Lancaster University, as well as a PGCE and honorary doctor This was a runner-up in the EMMA Best Book of the Year 2004. As a poetry mentor, Debjani Chatterjee is very encouraging and sensitive.

Debjani Chatterjee was born in Delhi in 1952 and came to Britain in 1972 via Japan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Egypt and Morocco. Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D'Arcy have contributed to many anthologies of children's poetry; they both have teaching backgrounds and are now full-time writers. Some critics consider this her most influential poem. Debjani Chatterjee Sheffield Children's Hospital . Of course a festival of lights could not be left out of a series of poems celebrating light! Like many other classical forms of Urdu poetry, the ghazal’s origin lies in Arabic literature. Debjani Chatterjee is an Indian-born 'poet full of wit and charm' (Andrew Motion), 'a rainbow spirit' (Paul Beasley) and 'a voice of rare originality' (David Morley). RAINBOW WORLD: POEMS FROM MANY CULTURES edited by Debjani Chatterjee & Bashabi Fraser, published by Hodder Wayland, 160 pp, ISBN 0 340 90318 X, £5.99 pbk. Poems by John Agard, Debjani Chatterjee, Jackie Kay and Grace Nicols Fiction by Ibtisam Barakat, Susmita Bhattacharya and C Y Onyia I nterviews with Diane Case and Jamila Gavin Articles on contemporary African American children's literature, c reating books for children in francophone Africa and beyond and stereotyping in children's books She is a Patron of Survivors' Poetry and Life Member of the Poetry Society in India and the UK. D'Arcy won an Edward Lear Centenary Limerick Competition and Chatterjee's Rainbow World: Poems from Many Cultures was an EMMA Best Book of the Year finalist. Award-winning poet-translator, Debjani Chatterjee MBE, shares a few poems from her collections, including her latest book Do You Hear the Storm Sing? Debjani Chatterjee has been called 'a poet full of wit and charm' (Andrew Motion), 'a national treasure' (Barry Tebb) and 'the UK's best-known Asian poet' (Elisabetta Marino). [2 extracts from ‘Daridro’ or 'Poverty', trans.

She also reads a traditional Hindi nursery rhyme in the original Hindi, transliterated by Debjani Chatterjee, with the translation by Debjani underneath. Debjani Chatterjee is an award-winning poet, children’s writer and translator, who has been described as ‘Britain’s best-known Asian poet’ (Elisabetta Marino), ‘full of wit and charm’ (Andrew Motion) and ‘a voice of rare originality’ (David Morley). Later at the Turkish Centre, as a poetry tutor at a workshop there, she was inspiring and a very good listener with a caring, enthusiastic approach. Nissim Ezekiel, the first to publish it when he was Poetry Editor at The Illustrated Weekly of India , called it one of his favourite poems in the magazine. [2 extracts from ‘Daridro’ or ‘Poverty’, trans. Her more than 60 books include Animal Antics and Monkey King’s Party for children, and I Was That Woman … Festival Poems from Around the World edited by Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D’Arcy.

Debjani has written several collections of traditional tales and … She voluntarily mentored me through Survivors Poetry's mentoring scheme to publish a pamphlet of my poetry. In 2008 my translations of Nazrul’s poems and songs won First Prize in the Muse India Poetry Translation Competition , but I … She has worked in the steel industry, education and community relations. by Debjani Chatterjee] ‘The Rebel’, ‘Poverty’ and ‘Woman’ are among Nazrul’s most famous poems. Widely anthologised, her poems have won various prizes including a Peterloo Poets prize. Debjani Chatterjee MBE is an Indian-born British poet and writer. Debjani Chatterjee: An Introduction to the Ghazal 121 DEBJANI CHATTERJEE An Introduction to the Ghazal1 The ghazal is an established and extremely popular verse-form in Urdu, primarily composed for performance rather than for the page. Children will be exploring the poems “The Balloons” by Oscar Wilde, “My Sari” by Debjani Chatterjee and “At the End of a School Day” by Wes Magee. Poems used from this book Poe-Tree for Arbor Day by Sue Hardy Dawson St Patrick’s Day by Brian D’Arcy Hallow’een by Jill Townsend The Christmas Pudding by Anonymous. Poems From Many Cultures by Debjani Chatterjee, 9780750242806, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Poems by Debjani Chatterjee, Tabish Khair, E A Markahm, Ra Page, Sudeep Sen and Kelwyn Sole Fiction by Attia Hosain Essay by Mervyn Morris Articles on dub poetry, The Harder They Come, Indian literatures in the 1990s, recent novels by Indian women writers and Nirad C Chaudhuri at one hundred Claire McLaughlin / 26 January 2015 For me, this selection of poems shows exactly why Paul Beasley and David Morley have responded so admiringly to Debjani Chatterjee’s work. She voluntarily mentored me through Survivors Poetry's mentoring scheme to publish a pamphlet of my poetry. (Core Publications, winter 2014). Let’s Play is an exuberant collection of poetry that makes perfect reading for any child passionate about sport.