Prashanti Talpankar
Prashanti Talpankar is a writer, translator, playwright and an actor, hailing from the coastal state of Goa, India. She is also an awardee of the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation. She currently serves as an associate professor at Dnyanprassark Mandal's college and Research Centre, Assagao. Early life. Prashanti Talpankar grew up as a student leader and as a part of Goa's historic official language agitation. Career. Writing. Prashanti Talpankar has been writing since her college days. Her poems have previously featured on All India Radio, Panaji. She has also written few short stories. However, primarily she  writes Children's stories and translates literary works. She has written a book based on primary survey of migrant labour called " Shadows in the Dark" Books 2006: Shadows in the Dark (Survey-based book on Status of Migrant Workers in Goa). Publisher: In 2006, she published "Shadows in the dark: The status of the migrant working community in Goa." In 2015, Talpankar released a Konkani translation of Shashi Deshpande's English book "That Long Silence", titled as "Dirgh Moun Te". This was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation in 2017. Act. Prashanti Talpankar has acted in many Konkani films . Some of her films include "Aleesha" (2004), "Paltadacho Munis" (2009), "Baga Beach" (2013) and "Juze" (2018). All of these films have won awards, at either the national or the international level.