Kath: Stories from Kashmir

Neerja Mattoo taught English language and literature in the Government College for Women, Maulana Azad Road, Srinagar and retired as Principal. She has written several books and papers on Kashmir and its literature and culture. She is well-known now as a translator from Kashmiri into English. apart from other publications, her book of translation of Kashmiri short stories," Contemporary Kashmiri Short Stories" was published by the Sahitya Akademi in 1998, and it has gone into two printings. She has participated in National and International Seminars, presenting papers on aspects of Kashmiri and English Literature. She was awarded a British Council Fellowship to the Unviersity of Oxford in 1984. She was also given a Senior Fellowship to the University of Oxford in 1984. She was also given a Senior Fellowships in Literature by the Department of Culture, Ministry of Human Resource Development, in 1997, to work on four Kashmir women poets, Lalded, Habba Khotun, Roh Bhawani and Arnimal, the subject of her forthcoming book. Neerja Mattoo is based in Srinagar.