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Sept. 22, 2006 MOUNT VERNON — A poet from India and a novelist from Bangladesh will discuss their works and give readings Thursday, Oct. 5, at Cornell College for the Global Voices series of campus appearances by international writers. The discussion is at 3:30 p.m. and the reading at 7 p.m., both in Shaw Lounge of The Commons. The events are open to the public and admission is free. Among the most prolific of the new generation of Bengali-language poets, Srijato Bandyopadhyay has published eight poetry collections, including “Flying Jokers” (2004), which won two literary awards, and “The Story of Katiusha” (2006). His poems appear in numerous magazines in West Bengal. He lives in Kolkata, where he edits the literary journal Jaruri Abastha (State of Emergency). Novelist, fiction writer and journalist Manju Sarkar has published 10 short story collections, most recently “Nirbachita Galpa” (2004). Among his 38 books, the novel “Abasvumi” (1994) won the Philips Literary Award as Best Novel in 1995. In 1998, he received the Bangla Academy Literary award for overall achievement in literature. He is an assistant editor of Daily Amar Desh, a leading newspaper in Bangladesh. His latest novel is “Plaban” (2006). Global Voices presents periodic visits to Cornell by creative writers in residence at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. Since 1967, more than 1,000 writers from more than 115 countries have attended the IWP.