Selina Sen

Selina Sen was educated in Simla and the Delhi University where she studied economics.

She was inspired to write her first book A Mirror Greens in Spring based on her mother’s reminiscences of her ancestral home lost upon partition in present-day Bangladesh. The book was well-received and translated into several languages. The French translation was shortlisted for the prestigious Literary award, Prix du Premier Roman 2009.

Selina Sen has contributed features and travel writing to most of India’s leading newspapers. Until recently she was the North Indian correspondent for the Hong Kong-based Publisher’s Representatives Ltd. which brings out a group of magazines on Asian economic affairs. She was correspondent for this group of monthly magazines for more than a decade.

She is at present working on her second book, set in New Delhi and Kashmir.

Works

• A Mirror Greens in Spring {2007}

A Mirror Greens in Spring

A Mirror Greens in Spring depicts the difference between two very diverse refugee cultures in Delhi, created upon the partition of India when the largest migration in history took place. In fact, issues of identity and displacement are woven as a distinct motif throughout the length of the book.

The book is full of clever surprises, an affectionate evocation of Delhi in the 1980s, as seen through the eyes of two Bengali sisters (which) develops into a fast-moving, well-plotted and often humourous thriller, complete with Punjabi weddings, black money, smugglers and blackmail.