Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya

Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya (Bengali: রাজলক্ষ্মী দেবী ভট্টাচার্য; also transliterated Rajlakshmi Devi, Rajiluxmi Debi; published under the name Rajlukshmee Debee; 8 May 1927 — 19 February 2005) was an Indian poet, translator and literary critic writing in Bengali and English.

Biography Debee was born in Mymensingh, East Bengal, in 1927. She graduated from Ananda Mohan College with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in philosophy.

She published many poems and books of poetry in Bengali, and then in 1972, published a volume of her poetry translated into English, The Owl and Other Poems.

She died on 19 May, 2005, at the age of 77.

Selected works

Books The Owl and Other Poems, Writers Workshop, Kolkata India 1972 The Touch Me Not Girl, Disha Publishers, New Delhi India 2000. 28 Songs of Rabindranath Tagore, Writers Workshop, Kolkata India 2002.

Articles 'Personal Man and Personal God', International Philosophical Quarterly Volume-15, December 1975. 'Because He is a Man', Cambridge Journal Volume 49, Issue 175, January 1974. 'The Waste Land of Bengali Fiction', Indian Writing Today, Volume-3, Number-3, July–September 1969