Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee taught English Literature at G C College, Silchar (Gauhati University) and Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University. He was Regional Secretary of Sahitya Akademi’s Eastern Regional Office at Kolkata and the Director of the National Book Trust at Delhi. Later, he also worked as the Editor of Sahitya Akademi’s prestigious journal Indian Literature and as Director of K. K. Birla Foundation, New Delhi. From 2013 to 2016 he worked as the Editorial Consultant of the Multi-volume Documentation Project of the Rashtrapati Bhavan .An accomplished translator from Bengali into English and vice versa, his English translations of fictions of Rabindranath Tagore, Mahasveta Devi, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Manik Bandyopadhyay and Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay have all been very well received. He has also translated a Kannada short story collection of U. R. Anantamurthy and a Marathi novel by Viswas Patil into Bengali in collaboration with the original authors.