Prashanti Talpankar

Prashanti Talpankar is a writer, translator, playwright and actor, hailing from the coastal state of Goa, India. She is also an awardee of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation. She currently serves as a lecturer in DMC, Assagao.

Prashanti Talpankar grew up as a student leader and a leader of Goa's historic official language agitation.

Writing

Talpankar has been writing since her college days. Her poems have previously featured on AIR. In 2006, she published Shadows in the dark: The status of the migrant working community in Goa. In 2015, Talpankar released a Konkani translation of Shashi Deshpande's English book That Long Silence, titled as Dirgh Moun Te. This was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in 2017.

Acting

Talpankar has acted in many Konkani films. Some of her films include Aleesha (2004), Paltadacho Munis (2009), Baga Beach (2013) and Juze (2018). All of these films have won awards, at either the national or the international level.

• Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation, 2017