Shoma A. Chatterji

Shoma A. Chatterji
Chatterji alongside Pablo Cesar and Moon Moon Sen on “Tagore on Celluloid”
Born1943 (age 80–81)
Kolkata, India
Occupation(s)Journalist, film scholar, author
Years active1981–present
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Shoma A. Chatterji is an Indian film scholar, author and freelance journalist.[1] She has been the recipient of a number of awards including the National Film Award for Best Film Critic in 1991 and the National Awards for Best Writing on Cinema for her study of the works of Aparna Sen in the publication, Parama and Other Outsiders: The Cinema of Aparna Sen (2002).[1][2][3] Notably, she is the only woman to have won both the national awards.[4] She is the author of several biographies including those on Pramathesh Barua, Ritwik Ghatak and Suchitra Sen.

Between 2005–2006, Chatterji was a research fellow at the National Film Archive of India, following which between 2006–2007, she was a senior research fellow at the PSBT Delhi and then a senior research fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research between 2009–2011.[1][2] Born and educated in Mumbai,[5] Chatterji has two Master's degrees in economics and education and a PhD in Indian cinema history.[1] Following her education, she was a lecturer in economics at a local college until 1991.[5]

  1. ^ a b c d "Chatterji, Shoma". SAGE Publications Inc. 21 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b Gokulsing, K. Moti; Dissanayake, Wimal, eds. (2013). Routledge Handbook on Indian Cinema. Routledge. pp. xi. ISBN 9781138311480.
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  4. ^ Mukherjee, Rina (29 January 2014). "Shoma Chatterji wins National Award for best author – NWM India". Network of Women in Media, India. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  5. ^ a b Chowdhury, Nandita (23 August 1999). "Author Shoma Chatterji tracks the woman in Indian films". India Today. Retrieved 22 November 2020.