Prashanti Talpankar is a writer, translator, playwright and actor, hailing from the coastal state of

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, India. She is also a recipient of the

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

for Translation. She currently serves as an associate professor at Dnyanprassark Mandal's college and Research Centre,

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Early life

Prashanti Talpankar grew up as a

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and as a part of Goa's historic official language agitation.

Career

Writing

Talpankar has been into writing since her college days. Her poems have previously featured on

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. She has also written few

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. 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

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

for Translation in 2017.

Filmography

Prashanti Talpankar has acted in many Konkani films. Some of her films include ''

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'' (2004), ''

Paltadacho Munis ''Paltadacho Munis'' or ''The Man Beyond the Bridge'' is an Indian film in Konkani directed by Laxmikant Shetgaonkar. Set in Goa, the film is about a recently widowed forest ranger in a dwindling forest, who strikes up an unlikely relationship ...

'' (2009), ''

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'' (2013) and ''

Juze ''Juze'' or ''Juje'' is a 2017 Indian film in Konkani language, Konkani, written and directed by Miransha Naik. The film is about the social injustice and exploitation faced by migrant labourers in Goa, and is set in the 1990s. It was co-produ ...

'' (2018). All of these films have won awards, at either the national or the international level.

Awards

* Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation, 2017

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Talpankar, Prashanti Living people Writers from Goa People from North Goa district Actresses from Goa Indian translators Year of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation