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Poile Sengupta was born in 1948 as Ambika Gopalakrishnan. She is one of the foremost 〔(Women's Writing Entry on Poile Sengupta ) maintained by Zubaan, an independent publishing house in India〕 Indian writers in English especially well known as a playwright and writer for children. Her formal first name is Ambika but she writes, and is known, as Poile. She has been a college lecturer, a senior school teacher, an educational consultant, a communication and language skills consultant, a consultant editor for a market research firm, and a teacher for Montessori school children. A number of her books for children have been published, including ''The Exquisite Balance''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amazon's listing )〕 (1985), ''The Way to My Friend's House'' (1988), ''The Story of the Road'' (1993), ''How the Path Grew'' (1997)- (all Children's Book Trust, New Delhi), ''The Clever Carpenter and Other Stories'', ''The Naughty Dog and Other Stories'', and ''The Black Snake and Other Stories'' (all Frank Brothers, New Delhi, 1993), ''Waterflowers'' (Scholastic, 2000), ''Vikram and Vetal'' (2006) and ''Vikramaditya's Throne''(2007)(Puffin).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Poile Sengupta - Penguin Books India )〕 ''Role Call'' has been translated into Bhasa Indonesia 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Poile Sengupta )〕 and ''Vikram and Vetal'' into French.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UniCat-Search )〕 Her stories for children have been included in a number of anthologies like ''The Puffin Treasury of Modern Indian Stories'', ''The Puffin Book of Funny Stories'', ''Favourite Stories for Boys'', ''Favourite Stories for Girls,'' ''A Clear Blue Sky'' and ''Bad Moon Rising'', all from Puffin, India,''More Mystery Stories'' (1989), ''24 Short Stories'' (1991), both from Children's Book Trust, New Delhi,''Sorry, Best Friend'' (1996) and ''One World'', both from Tulika, Chennai, the Target Annuals (1989,1990)and ''The Best of Target'' She has written a number of columns for children, the longest running of which, 'A Letter to You', a humour column about a 10-year-old boy Perky and his friend Raghu, ran intermittently in the weekly, later monthly, magazine ''Children's World'' for over thirty years. Another column of hers, 'Role Call', about school life, appeared weekly in the ''Deccan Herald''; and a selection was published in two volumes ''Role Call'' (2003) and ''Role Call Again'' (Rupa, 2003). A third, short lived, column for children was 'Write Hear' in Midday, Mumbai. As a playwright, her first full-length play, ''Mangalam'', won the award for the most socially relevant theme in The Hindu-Madras Players Playscripts Competition in 1993. Since then she wrote a series of plays for both adults and children including ''Inner Laws'' (1994), ''A Pretty Business'' (1995), ''Keats Was A Tuber'' (1996), ''Collages''(1998),'' Alipha'' (2001) and ''Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni'' (2001) and ''Yavamajakka''( a musical for children) (2000). In 2008, ''Samara's Song'' was shortlisted for the Hindu Metro Plus Playwright award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shortlist announcement )〕 Six of her plays have been published as ''Women Centre Stage: The Dramatist and the Play'', Routledge, Delhi and London, 2010. She received, in 1999-2001, a senior fellowship of the Government of India to write plays for children in English. A collection of these plays for children, ''Good Heavens!'' has been published by Puffin, India (2006. In 1991, a collection of her poetry, ''A Woman Speaks'', was published by Writers Workshop, Calcutta. Poile Sengupta also occasionally writes short fiction. Her short story 'Ammulu' was shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2012 Shortlist )〕 Poile has been an accomplished actor on stage and in film ('The Outhouse' directed by Leslie Carvalho and 'Shaitaan' directed by Bejoy Nambiar). She is the founder of Theatre Club, a Bangalore-based amateur theatre group. She has been a Member of the Society, that is the Governing Council, of the National School of Drama, New Delhi. She has also thrice been on the jury of Trinity College, London, international competition of plays for young people. In October 2014, her novel ''Inga'' was published.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crossword.in/books/inga/p-books-9789384030643.html )〕 ==Notes and references== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Poile Sengupta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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