Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee taught English Literature at Gauhati University for ten years and Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University for five years. He then joined Sahitya Akademi’s Eastern Regional Office at Kolkata as its Secretary. After putting in a decade there, he shifted to Delhi and worked as the Director of the National Book Trust, India for a five-year tenure. Later, he also worked as the Editor of Sahitya Akademi’s prestigious journal Indian Literature for five years and Director of K. K. Birla Foundation, New Delhi for six years. Currently, he functions as the Editorial Director of Niyogi Books. An accomplished translator from Bengali into English and vice versa, he has translated fictions of Mahasveta Devi, Sunil Gangaopadhyay, and Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay have been well received.