Debjani Chatterjee
Debjani Chatterjee MBE (born 21 November 1952) is an Indian-born British poet and writer. She now lives in Sheffield, England. Life. Chatterjee was born in Delhi and has lived in India, Japan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Egypt, and Morocco, before coming to Britain in 1972. 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 doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University. After completing her PhD in  1977, Chatterjee worked in education. From 1984 to 1994 she was Director of Sheffield Racial Equality Council. Chatterjee has written, translated, or edited more than 65 books, starting with the poetry collection "I Was That Woman" in 1989. She has won a number of prizes, including the Peterloo Poets Prize, and her book "The Elephant-Headed God and Other Hindu Tales" was selected for Children's Books of the Year in 1990. In August 2010 Chatterjee contributed to an eBook collection of political poems entitled "Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State" edited by Alan Morrison. She was  appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours and was an Olympic Torchbearer in 2012. Awards and prizes. OTHER PRIZES, AWARDS & HONOURS