Asards
Awards Received
SAARC Literature Award 2023
SAARC Literature Award 2023, presented by Foundation of SAARC Writers, New Delhi
Bangla Academy Puroshkar
Literature Award in the Translation category for 2013
FOSWAL Literature Award 2012
Award given at the SAARC Literature Festival of 2012 held at Lucknow India, March 16-18, 2012, by the Foundation of FOSWAL
Other Honors Received
DSC South Asian Literature Prize, 2011
Jury Member, DSC South Asian Literature Prize, 2011
January 2011 Invited by Visva-Bharati University Study Circle for a two-week long stay in Shantiniketan to teach, do research and give a public lecture as Visiting Professor from January 7 to January 20, 2011.
September 1998. Visit to the University of Warwick to finalize details of link programme with University of Warwick, CELTE and CBCSS on British Council grant.
British Council Grant to attend conference on "The New Literary Geography of English Studies," at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, April 11-16, 1994, and to do research on Burke and India in the British Library for six weeks from April 17 to May 30, 1994.
Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 1980 - 1982.
Jury Member
Commonwealth Literature’s Writer’s Prize for the Asia-Pacific region, 2003
September, 2006, Visit to Germany for a week-long educational tour of Hamburg and Berlin at the invitation of the Goethe Institute.
Residency (for September-October 1997) to attend Ledig House International Writer's Colony's Translation Conference at Ledig House, Ghent, New York, USA.
Full Tuition Scholarship, to attend the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College, June - July 1990.
Research Stipend, Simon Fraser University, Summer 1980.
Prothom Alo Puroshkar
Member, Jury Board of Prothom Alo Puroshkar of 2014.
March 2001. Grant from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations to work on a book on South Asian Writing in English in various libraries of India.
British Council Grant to attend conference on contemporary British writing held in Jaipur, India, from February 19, 1995 through February 24, 1995.
British Council Grant to attend a course organized by the Council in Loch Lomond, Scotland. Course Title: "The Changing Currency of Literature Teaching", March - April 1986.