Meenaxi Barkotoki

A mathematician-turned-anthropologist by profession, Meenaxi Barkotoki, has her roots in Assam but has spent most of the last two decades in Germany. A keen chronicler of the written word, she has been a translator of Assamese literature since the last thirty years. Her translations have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and periodicals, including The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India and in Asomiya Handpicked Fictions.

As the Managing Trustee of the Munin Barkotoki Memorial Trust, which supports and encourages young writers writing in Assamese, Barkotoki also translates and publishes selected writings of the winners of the Munin Barkotoki Literary Award. She is also a Founding Member of North East Writers’ Forum, a society dedicated to supporting writers writing in English from Northeast India and to supporting translations into English from the other languages of Northeast India.