THE FOUNDER
Sutapa Basu is a best-selling, award-winning author as well as an educationist, poet, storyteller, and a translator. Her historical novel, THE CURSE OF NADER SHAH won the Best Fiction Award by AutHer Awards, 2020 instituted by JK Papers and The Times of India. She is the 2016 First Prize winner of The Times of India’s Write India Campaign for Amish Tripathi while her debut, a psychological thriller, DANGLE was nominated for the Anupam Kher Award for Best Debut English Novel in 2017. In March 2021, she received an award for Excellence in Publishing by the Public Diplomacy Forum.
She is well-known for her best-selling historical fiction, PADMAVATI, The Queen Tells Her Own Story (2017, pub Readomania). Her second historical fiction initiated the Invader Series with THE LEGEND OF GENGHIS KHAN (2018, pub Readomania) and continued with THE CURSE OF NADER SHAH (2019, pub Readomania). Recently, her two anthologies, OUT OF THE BLUE, Stories with a Twist and THE ANATOMY OF AFFECTION, Tales That Touch You (2020, pub Readomania) have been released. A cozy-mystery adventure, THE CURSED INHERITANCE (2021, pub Readomania) was released in February. Stepping into the genre of children’s literature, her English translation of the iconic Thakurmar Jhuli titled PRINCESSES, MONSTERS AND MAGICAL CREATURES (2021, pub, Readomania) has been launched in August this year.
Sutapa’s short stories have appeared in anthologies, Crossed & Knotted, Defiant Dreams, When They Spoke and Write India Stories. Her poems have been published in Muse India, Kaafiyana, The Dawn Beyond Waste and Remnants Of Loss.
Authored by Sutapa Basu, THE ENGLISH ROUTE Primer to Book 8, THE ENGLISH GARDEN Books 1-5, and EMERALD Term Books 1-5 are the educational series being prescribed in schools in India and abroad. Children’s fiction and poetry written by her have been selected for several textbooks at the K-12 levels.
An author, poet and educationist, Sutapa is the Director, Publishing at Eupheus Learning.
Daughter to an army officer and wife of another, Sutapa has been travelling before she could walk. She has studied in Santiniketan and holds a post graduate degree in English Literature as well as a Bachelors degree in Education. Her professional life of 32 years includes work as an educational faculty and creative writing trainer. As a publishing professional that spans a career from Oxford University Press, India to Encyclopedia Britannica, South Asia to Eupheus Learning, she has designed and supervised publishing of more than 400 titles.
Sutapa runs a live chat show called BISTRO BUZZ, Conversations with Sutapa Basu. Read her works on sutapabasu.com and readomania.com.
