Abu Ishaque
Abu Ishaque (Abu Bashar Mohammad Ishaque; Bangla: আবু ইসহাক) was a renowned modern Bangladeshi author and a famous novelist. Ishaque is often categorized with those who wrote the least and showed the best. Three novels - one of which is a detective novel, two collections of short stories and the voluminous Samokalin Bangla Bhashar Obhidhan. He comes forth as a major novelist in contemporary literature with the publication of সূর্য দীঘল বাড়ি [Surya-Dighal Bari, that means A Cursed House] written at the age of only twenty one and till now its mighty presence is felt by readers of Bangla fiction. This was the first successful novel in Bangladeshi literature.
Literary awards:
Bangla Academy Literary Award (1963)
Ekushey Padak (1997)
Independence D
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Shankar's father died while Shankar was still a teenager, as a result of which Shankar became a clerk to the last British barrister of the Calcutta High Court, Noel Frederick Barwell. The experience of working under Mr. Barwell provided the material for his first book Koto Ojanare (কত অজানারে), translated as The Great Unknown.
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মাশুদুল হকের জন্ম ও বেড়ে ওঠা ঢাকায়। এক দশকের বেশি সময় ধরে লিখছেন থ্রিলার, সায়েন্সফিকশন ও শিশু-কিশোর সাহিত্য, প্রকাশিত হয়েছে নিয়মিত ভাবে বাংলাদেশ ও ভারত থেকে।
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সাহিত্য-পুরস্কার : এইচএসবিসি-কালিওকলম তরুণ কথাসাহিত্যিক পুরস্কার ২০১৩।
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He was an active worker of the Language Movement of 1952. The effect of Language Movement was so high on him that he made his legendary film Jibon Theke Neya based on it. In 1971 he joined in the Liberation War of Bangladesh and created documentary films on this great event.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bangali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bangla literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel, Pather Panchali: Song of the Road which was later adapted (along with Aparajito, the sequel) into the Apu Trilogy films, directed by Satyajit Ray.
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Akhteruzzaman Elias
আখতারুজ্জামান ইলিয়াস ছিলেন একজন বাংলাদেশি ঔপন্যাসিক এবং ছোটগল্পকার। তিনি মাত্র দুটি উপন্যাস রচনা করলেও সমালোচকরা তাঁকে একজন শ্রেষ্ঠ বাঙালি ঔপন্যাসিক হিসেবেই বিবেচনা করেন। এই দুটি উপন্যাসের বাইরে ইলিয়াস মাত্র তেইশটি ছোটগল্প এবং বাইশটি প্রবন্ধ লিখেছেন। ইলিয়াস সমাজ, রাষ্ট্র এবং জনগণের একজন একাগ্র পর্যবেক্ষক ছিলেন। তিনি তাঁর লেখার চরিত্রগুলোকে বিভিন্ন সামাজিক শ্রেণি এবং অবস্থানের প্রতীক হিসেবে সুদক্ষভাবে রূপায়ন করতেন। লেখার সময় তিনি চেষ্টা করতেন ঐতিহাসিকভাবে নির্ভুল থাকতে, ফলে তিনি পাঠকের স্বাচ্ছন্দ্যের চেয়ে লেখার অন্তর্নিহিত গুরুত্বকেই বেশি প্রাধান্য দিয়েছেন সবসময়। ক্যান্সারে আক্রান্ত হয়ে অকালমৃত্যুর ফলে তাঁর সৃজনশীল জীবন খুব দীর্ঘায়িত হতে পারেনি, কিন্তু তাঁর লেখাগুলো বাংলা সাহিত্যে ধ্রুপদী সৃষ্টি হিসেবে স্থান পেয়েছে।
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Hergé
Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist.
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Manik Bandopadhyay
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt Saratchandra) (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was a legendary Bengali novelist from India. He was one of the most popular Bengali novelists of the early 20th century.
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
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এই বরেণ্য ব্যক্তিত্বের জন্ম হয় ১৯৬১ সালের ১ ফেব্রুয়ারি ঝিনাইদহের ধোপাঘাট গোবিন্দপুর গ্রামে। তার পিতা খোন্দকার আনওয়ারুজ্জামান ও মা বেগম লুৎফুন্নাহার।
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Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: তারাশঙ্কর বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was born at his ancestral home at Labhpur village in Birbhum district, Bengal Province, British India (now West Bengal, India). He wrote 65 novels, 53 story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies and 2 travel stories. For his novel Arogyaniketan, he received the Rabindra Puraskar in 1955 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1956. In 1966, he received the Jnanpith Award for his novel গণদেবতা. He was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1962 and the Padma Bhushan in 1969.
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Akbar Ali Khan
Akbar Ali Khan (Bengali: আকবর আলি খান) was a Bangladeshi economist and educationist who served as a bureaucrat until 2001. He was the SDO of Habiganj during the Bangladesh Liberation War, when he decided to join the war. Later he served as an official of the Mujibnagar Government. After the independence he joined back the civil serviceand reached to the highest post of Cabinet Secretary and also worked as a university teacher. His book Porarthoporotar Orthoniti (Economics of Other-minding) has been a popular book on economics à la Galbraith.
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Shahidul Jahir
Shahidul Jahir (also spelled Zahir) was a Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer. He was reputed for extraordinary prose style and diciton and considered a genuine founder of post-modern fiction in Bangla literature.
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Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1953 as Shahidul Huq, he joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in the Administrative cadre in 1981. In 2008, he was appointed as a Secretary in Charge of Ministry of CHT affairs to the Government of Bangladesh. A confirmed bachelor, he lived a quiet and a very simple life. Hardly he agreed for a formal interview for publication.
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Leela Majumdar
Leela Majumdar (Bengali: লীলা মজুমদার Lila Mojumdar) was a Bengali writer. Her first story, Lakkhi chhele, was published in Sandesh in 1922. It was also illustrated by her. The children's magazine in Bengali was founded by her uncle, Upendrakishore Ray Chaudhuri in 1913 and was later edited by her cousin Sukumar Ray for sometime after the death of Upendrakishore in 1915. Together with her nephew Satyajit Ray and her cousin Nalini Das, she edited and wrote for Sandesh throughout her active writing life. Until 1994 she played an active role in the publication of the magazine.
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An incomplete bibliography lists 125 books including a collection of short stories, five books under joint authorship, 9 translated books and 19 edited -
Akhteruzzaman Elias
আখতারুজ্জামান ইলিয়াস ছিলেন একজন বাংলাদেশি ঔপন্যাসিক এবং ছোটগল্পকার। তিনি মাত্র দুটি উপন্যাস রচনা করলেও সমালোচকরা তাঁকে একজন শ্রেষ্ঠ বাঙালি ঔপন্যাসিক হিসেবেই বিবেচনা করেন। এই দুটি উপন্যাসের বাইরে ইলিয়াস মাত্র তেইশটি ছোটগল্প এবং বাইশটি প্রবন্ধ লিখেছেন। ইলিয়াস সমাজ, রাষ্ট্র এবং জনগণের একজন একাগ্র পর্যবেক্ষক ছিলেন। তিনি তাঁর লেখার চরিত্রগুলোকে বিভিন্ন সামাজিক শ্রেণি এবং অবস্থানের প্রতীক হিসেবে সুদক্ষভাবে রূপায়ন করতেন। লেখার সময় তিনি চেষ্টা করতেন ঐতিহাসিকভাবে নির্ভুল থাকতে, ফলে তিনি পাঠকের স্বাচ্ছন্দ্যের চেয়ে লেখার অন্তর্নিহিত গুরুত্বকেই বেশি প্রাধান্য দিয়েছেন সবসময়। ক্যান্সারে আক্রান্ত হয়ে অকালমৃত্যুর ফলে তাঁর সৃজনশীল জীবন খুব দীর্ঘায়িত হতে পারেনি, কিন্তু তাঁর লেখাগুলো বাংলা সাহিত্যে ধ্রুপদী সৃষ্টি হিসেবে স্থান পেয়েছে।
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Syed Shamsul Haque
Syed Shamsul Haque (Bangla: সৈয়দ শামসুল হক) was a Bangladeshi poet and writer. Haq lived alternately in Dhaka and London. He wrote poetry, fiction, plays - mostly in verse and essays. He, the youngest writer to be honored with Bangla Academy Award, achieved it at the age of 29. He was honored with Ekushey Podok in 1984.
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(সব্যসাচী লেখক সৈয়দ শামসুল হক ১৯৩৫ সালের ২৭ ডিসেম্বর কুড়িগ্রামে জন্মেছিলেন। বর্ণাঢ্য লেখকজীবনের অধিকারী সৈয়দ হক। কবিতা, ছোটগল্প, উপন্যাস, কাব্যনাট্য, চলচ্চিত্রের চিত্রনাট্য, চলচ্চিত্রের গান – যা লিখেছেন সবকিছুতেই পেয়েছেন জনপ্রিয়তা, সাফল্য।
মাত্র ২৯ বছর বয়সে ১৯৬৪ সালে বাংলা একাডেমি পুরস্কার পান সৈয়দ হক। এখন পর্যন্ত বাংলা একাডেমি পুরস্কার পাওয়া সর্বকনিষ্ঠ লেখক তিনি।
সৈয়দ হকের লেখালেখির শুরু তাঁর শৈশবেই। ম্যাট্রিক পরীক্ষার আগে লি -
Shahaduz Zaman
Shahaduz Zaman (Bangla: শাহাদুজ্জামান) is a Medical Anthropologist, currently working with Newcastle University, UK. He writes short stories, novels, and non-fiction. He has published 25 books, and his debut collection ‘Koyekti Bihbol Galpa’ won the Mowla Brothers Literary Award in 1996. He also won Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2016.
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Satinath Bhaduri
Satinath Bhaduri was a Bengali Indian novelist and politician. He was known by his literary pseudonym, Chitra Gupta. His ancestral home was in Krishnanagar in the district of Nadia. He obtained an MA degree in Economics from the University of Patna in 1930. In 1931 he completed his BL degree. He started practising law at Patna between 1932 and 1939. He then joined Indian National Congress and became a district secretary of Purnia. He was imprisoned in Bhagalpur Jail twice: 1940-41 and 1942-45. In 1948, he fell out with the Congress and joined the Socialist Party.
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Satinath's first novel was Jagari (1946), for which he received the very first Rabindra Puraskar (1950). This book earned him considerable fame, and was translated into English in 1 -
Shahidullah Kaiser
Shahidullah Kaiser (Bengali: শহীদুল্লাহ কায়সার) was born Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah. He is the brother of another famous Bengali author Zahir Raihan. Kaiser studied at Presidency College, Kolkata and obtained a Bachelors degree in economics with honours. Later, he enrolled in Masters of Arts at Calcutta University but did not finish getting the degree.
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Kaiser was active in politics and cultural movements from his student days. Following the formation of Pakistan in 1947, he became a member of the provincial Communist Party of East Pakistan. He started working as a journalist in 1949 with the Ittefaq in Dhaka. In 1952, he participated actively in the Language Movement. For his political role in the movement for protection of Bengali lang -
Shawkat Ali
Shawkat Ali (Bangla: শওকত আলী) is a major contemporary writer of Bangladesh, and has been contributing to Bangla fiction for the last four decades. Both in novels and short stories he has established his place with much glory. His fiction touches every sphere of life of mass people of Bangladesh. He prefers to deal with history, specially the liberation war in 1971. He was honored with Bangla Academy Award in 1968 and Ekushey Padak in 1990.
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Al Mahmud
Mir Abdus Shukur Al Mahmud (best known as Al Mahmud) was a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, and short-story writer. He was considered one of the greatest Bengali poets to have emerged in the 20th century. His work in Bengali poetry is dominated by his frequent use of regional dialects. In the 1950s he was among those Bengali poets who were outspoken in their writing on such subjects as the events of the Bengali Language Movement, nationalism, political and economical repression, and the struggle against the West Pakistani government.
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Notable awards: Bangla Academy Award (1968)
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Jasim Uddin
Jasimuddin (Bangla: জসীম উদদীন; full name: Jasimuddin Mollah) was a Bengali poet, songwriter, prose writer, folklore collector and radio personality. He is commonly known in Bangladesh as Polli Kobi (The Rural Poet), for his faithful rendition of Bengali folklore in his works.
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He obtained his BA degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta in 1929 and his MA in 1931. From 1931 to 1937, Jasimuddin worked with Dinesh Chandra Sen as a collector of folk literature. Jasimuddin is one of the compilers of Purbo-Bongo Gitika (Ballads of East Bengal). He collected more than 10,000 folk songs, some of which has been included in his song compilations Jari Gaan and Murshida Gaan. He also wrote voluminously on the interpretation and philosophy of Be -
Munier Choudhury
Munier Chowdhury (Bangla: মুনীর চৌধুরী), born in 1925 at Manikganj, Dhaka, hailed from Noakhali, was a Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident. He's the brother of Kabir Chowdhury.
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Munier studied English literature for his Bachelors degree (with honors, 1946) and Masters (1947) at the Dhaka University. In 1954, he completed a second Masters degree, summa cum laude, in Bengali. In 1958, he obtained another Masters in Linguistics from Harvard University. He joined the Dhaka University in 1950 and taught both in English and Bengali language departments between 1950 and 1971. Students flocked to his class, many from other departments, as he lectured in his inimitable fashion on Mir Mosharraf Hossain, Bankim -
Pramatha Choudhury
Pramathanath Chaudhuri (Bengali: প্রমথনাথ চৌধুরী), known as Pramatha Chaudhuri, alias Birbal, is an exceptionally illuminating persona in modern Bengali literature. It is astounding how he kept hold of his uniqueness in all-pervasive era of Rabindranath Tagore. As the editor of Sabuj Patra ("Green Leaves",1914) and the mentor of the group that gathered around this journal, Chaudhuri left a lasting legacy to the literature of Bengal.
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Profoundly patriotic and a stated cosmopolitan, aficionado of Sanskrit, Pramatha Chaudhuri had immense faith in the native genius of the Bengali. “Today if the traditional high Bengali with its stilted Sanskritic elements makes place, more and more, for a form of spoken Bengali, if ‘current’ Bengali is considered -
Adwaita Mallabarman
Adwaita Mallabarman (Bengali: অদ্বৈত মল্লবর্মণ) (alternative spelling Advaita Mallabarmana) was a Bengali writer. He is mostly known for his novel Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (English: A River Called Titash) which was published in a monthly named Mohammadi five years after his death.
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Purnendu Pattrea
Purnendu Patri (sometimes Anglicised as Purnendu Pattrea) was an Indian poet, writer, editor, artist, illustrator, and film director. He was best known for his poems and stories, particularly for his poetry collection Kathopokathan in Bengali, and for his experimentation with book cover design. He also was a researcher of the history of Kolkata.
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Mahmudul Haque
Mahmudul Haque (Bangla: মাহমুদুল হক) was a contemporary novelist in Bangla literature. He was born in Barasat in West Bengal. His family moved to Dhaka after the partition in 1947. His novels deal with this pain of leaving one's home.
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Mahmud gave up writing in 1982 after a number of acclaimed novels. Affectionately known as Botu Bhai and always seen as a lively figure in social gatherings, the rest of the time he was said to lead a solitary life. -
Mir Mosharraf Hossain
Mir Mosharraf Hossain (Bangla: মীর মশাররফ হোসেন) was a Bengali language novelist, playwright and essayist in 19th century Bengal. He is principally known for his famous novel Bishad Sindhu. He is considered as the first novelist to emerge from the Muslim society of Bengal.
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Sreepantha
শ্রীপান্থের জন্ম ১৯৩২ সালে, ময়মনসিংহের গৌরীপুরে | লেখাপড়া ময়মনসিংহ এবং কলকাতায় | শ্রীপান্থ তরুণ বয়স থেকেই পেশায় সাংবাদিক | আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকার সম্পাদকীয় বিভাগের সঙ্গে যুক্ত | সাংবাদিকতার পাশাপাশি দীর্ঘদিন ধরেই গবেষণামূলক রচনাদি লিখে যাচ্ছেন তিনি | তাঁর চর্চার বিষয় সামাজিক ইতিহাস | বিশেষত কলকাতার সমাজ ও সংকৃতি | তিনি সতীদাহ,দেবদাসী,ঠগী,হারেম-ইত্যাদি বিষয় নিয়ে যেমন লিখেছেন, তেমনিই কলকাতার পটভূমিতে লিখেছেন একাধিক রচনা | তার মধ্যে উল্লেখযোগ্য: আজব নগরী, শ্রীপান্থেরকলকতা, যখন ছাপাখানা এল, এলোকেশী মোহন্ত সম্বাদ, কেয়াবাৎ মেয়ে, মেটিয়াবুরুজের নবাব, দায় ইত্যাদি | বটতলা তাঁর সর্বশেষ বই | কলকাতার শিল্পী সংস্কৃতি বিষয়ে তাঁর বেশি কিছু প্রবন্ধ ইংরেজিতেও প্রকাশিত হয়েছে | বাংলা মুলুকে প্রথম ধাতব হরফে ছাপা বই হালেদের 'আ গ্রামার অব দ্য বেঙ্গল
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Anwar Pasha
আনোয়ার পাশা একজন বাংলাদেশী কবি, কথা সাহিত্যিক, এবং শিক্ষাবিদ। তাঁর পিতার নাম হাজী মকরম আলী আর মা সাবেরা খাতুন। তিনি মুর্শিদাবাদ জেলার বহরমপুর মোহকুমার রাঙ্গামাটি চাঁদপাড়া ইউনিয়নের অন্তর্গত ডবকাই গ্রামে জন্মগ্রহণ করেন।
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তিনি ১৯৪৬ সালে মাদ্রাসা পরীক্ষায় প্রথম বিভাগে কৃতকার্য হন। কিন্তু ১৯৪৮ সালে আবার উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক পরীক্ষা দিয়ে পাশ করেন। তিনি রাজশাহী কলেজ থেকে বাংলা সাহিত্যে স্নাতক পাশ করেন ১৯৫১ সালে এবং কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে বাংলা সাহিত্যেই স্নাতকোত্তর সম্মাননা অর্জন করেন। মানিকচক হাই মাদ্রাসায় শিক্ষকতার মাধ্যমে আনোয়ার পাশার কর্মজীবন শুরু হয়। পরে তিনি ১৯৫৪ সালে ভাবতা আজিজিয়া হাই মাদ্রাসায় এবং ১৯৫৭ সালে সাদিখান দিয়ার বহুমুখী উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক বিদ্যালয়ে শিক্ষকতা করেন। ১৯৫৮ সালে তিনি পাবনা এডওয়ার্ড কলেজে প্রভাষক হিসেবে যোগ দেন এবং প -
Abdul Haleem Sharar
Abdul Halim Sharar was a prolific Indian Urdu language author, playwright, essayist and historian from Lucknow. He left behind, in all, hundred and two books. He often wrote about the Islamic past and extolled virtues like courage, bravery, magnanimity and religious fervour.
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Malikul Azia Varjina (1889),
Firdaus-e-Bareen (1899),
Zawal-e-Baghdad (1912),
Husn ka Daku (1913–1914),
Darbar-e-Harampur (1914)
and Fateh Maftuh (1916) are some of his famous novels.
His book Guzishta Lucknow is still considered as one of the best narrative describing the genesis of the city and its culture of Lucknow. -
Buddhadeva Bose
Buddhadeva Bose (also spelt Buddhadeb Bosu) (Bengali: বুদ্ধদেব বসু ) was a major Bengali writer of the 20th century. Frequently referred to as a poet, he was a versatile writer who wrote novels, short stories, plays and essays in addition to poetry. He was an influential critic and editor of his time. He is recognized as one of the five poets who moved to introduce modernity into Bengali poetry. It has been said that since Tagore, perhaps, there has been no greater talent in Bengali literature. His wife Protiva Bose was also a writer.
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Buddhadeva Bose received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 for his verse play Tapaswi O Tarangini, received the Rabindra Puraskar in 1974 for Swagato Biday(poetry) and was honoured with a Padma Bhushan in 19 -
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Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nabaneeta Dev Sen is an award-winning Indian poet, novelist and academic. Sen has published more than 80 books in Bengali: poetry, novels, short stories, plays, literary criticism, personal essays, travelogues, humour writing, translations and children’s literature. Her short stories and travelogues are a rare combination of fine humour, deep human concern, and high intellect, which has made her a unique figure in the Bangla literary scene.
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She is a well-known children's author in Bengali for her fairy tales and adventure stories, with girls as protagonist. She has also written prize-winning one-act plays. -
Annada Shankar Ray
Annada Shankar Ray was a Bengali poet and essayist.
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He was born in 1904 at Dhenkanal, Orissa. He graduated in English from Ravenshaw College. His father had shifted base from their ancestral village of Rameswarpur near Dhamnagar in Bhadrak of Orissa, following a family feud. His family roots go back to the 'Ghosh Mahashayas' who migrated to Rameswarpur from Kotarang near Howrah as a part of Todarmal's contingent during Akbar's reign.
He topped the list of Indian Civil Service examinees in 1927. He had failed to make the mark in the previous year being cut-off by one rank. It is said that he promised to his family and friends that if only one person was to be selected for ICS the next year, it would be himself, and he proved it. Incidentally h -
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Bengali: ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর Ishshor Chôndro Biddashagor 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandopadhyay (Bengali: ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, Ishshor Chôndro Bôndopaddhae), was an Indian Bengali polymath and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance. Vidyasagar was a philosopher, academic, educator, writer, translator, printer, publisher, entrepreneur, reformer, and philanthropist. His efforts to simplify and modernize Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalized and simplified the Bengali alphabet and type, which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first (wooden) Bengali type in 1780. He received the title "Vidyasagar" ("Ocean of learning"
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Shawkat Osman
Shawkat Osman (Bengali: শওকত ওসমান; Sheikh Azizur Rahman; 1917 – 1998) was a Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.Osman's first prominent novel was Janani. Janani (Mother)is a portrait of the disintegration of a family because of the rural and urban divide. In Kritadaser Hasi (Laugh of a Slave), Osman explores the darkness of contemporary politics and reality of dictatorship.
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Awards
Bangla Academy Award (1962)
Adamjee Literary Award (1966)
President Award (1967)
Ekushey Padak (1983)
Mahbubullah Foundation Prize (1983)
Muktadhara Literary Award (1991)
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Harishankar Jaladas
Harishankar is a promising Bangladeshi author. The most significant point to notice is that all the four novels produced from Harishankar's pen sketch the life of the downtrodden, some of whom are from among fisherfolks, some from among prostitutes and some others are the 'harijons' or 'methors'.
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বিমল মিত্র | Bimal Mitra
Bimal Mitra (bengali: বিমল মিত্র) was a prominent Bengali writer who wrote several novels. Bimal Mitra was equally adept in writing in Bengali as well as in Hindi, and has more than one hundred novels and short stories to his credit. Many of Bimal Mitra's novels have been made into successful films. One of his most popular works, Shaheb Bibi Golam (January 1953) which was adapted into a hugely popular movie
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Shamsur Rahman
Shamsur Rahman (Bengali: শামসুর রাহমান) was a Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist. Rahman, who emerged in the latter half of the 20th century, wrote more than sixty books of poetry and is considered a key figure in Bengali literature. He was regarded the unofficial poet laureate of Bangladesh. Major themes in his poetry and writings include liberal humanism, human relations, romanticised rebellion of youth, the emergence of and consequent events in Bangladesh, and opposition to religious fundamentalism.
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Alauddin Al-Azad
Alauddin Al-Azad (Bangla: আলাউদ্দিন আল আজাদ) was a modern Bangladeshi author, novelist, and poet. He was a student of Bangla literature in Dhaka University. He received his PhD from London University in 1970 for his work 'Iswar Gupter Jeebon o Kabita' (ঈশ্বরগুপ্তের জীবন ও কবিতা).
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Azad was born in Dhaka. He was a professor of Bangla literature. Also he was a first secretary of Bangladesh High Commission in Moskow.
He was honored with Bangla Academy Award (1965), UNESCO Award (1965), National Film Award (1977) and Ekushey Padak (1986). -
Debotosh Das
দেবতোষ দাশ-এর জন্ম ১১ জানুয়ারি ১৯৭২। মা-বাবা-স্ত্রী-কন্যাসহ থাকেন দক্ষিণ শহরতলি সুভাষগ্রামে। যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে তুলনামূলক সাহিত্যে স্নাতকোত্তর। রাজ্য সরকারের ভূমি ও ভূমি-সংস্কার দফতরে কর্মরত। প্রথম গল্প প্রকাশ ১৯৯৫ সালে ‘অপর’ পত্রিকায়। গল্প প্রকাশিত হয়েছে দেশ, রবিবাসরীয় আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা, শারদীয়া প্রতিদিন, শিলাদিত্য, কিশোরভারতী পত্রিকায়। লেখেন নাটকও। নান্দীকার তাঁর নাটক ‘বিপন্নতা’ মঞ্চস্থ করে ২০১৪ সালে। নাটক ‘ওচাঁদ’ লিখে পেয়েছেন সুন্দরম পুরস্কার। প্রকাশিত উপন্যাস: ‘বিষকন্যা’, ‘বিন্দুবিসর্গ’ এবং ‘সন্ধ্যাকর নন্দী ও সমকালীন বঙ্গসমাজ’। সিনেমা, সংগীত আর খেলাধুলোয় আগ্রহী।
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Mohit Kamal
মোহিত কামাল বাংলাদেশের একজন কথাসাহিত্যিক ও মনোশিক্ষাবিদ। শিশু সাহিত্য বিষয়ে অবদানের স্বীকৃতি স্বরূপ তিনি ১৪১৮ বঙ্গাব্দে শিশু একাডেমি প্রদত্ত অগ্রণী ব্যাংক শিশু একাডেমী শিশুসাহিত্য পুরস্কার এবং কথাসাহিত্যে অবদানের জন্য ২০১৮ সালে বাংলা একাডেমি সাহিত্য পুরস্কার লাভ করেন।
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Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay
Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bengali: সঞ্জীবচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was a Bengali writer, poet and journalist. He was the elder brother of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
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Sanjib Chandra was born to an orthodox Brahmin family at Kanthalpara, North 24 Parganas. He was educated at Hooghly Mohsin College founded by famous Bengali philanthropist Muhammad Mohsin and Presidency College, Calcutta. He was one of the first graduates of the University of Calcutta.
Sanjib Chandra is widely regarded as a key figure in literary renaissance of Bengal as well as India. Some of his writings, including novels, essays and commentaries, were a breakaway from traditional verse-oriented Indian writings, and provided an inspiration for authors across India. -
Mainus Sultan
মঈনুস সুলতানের জন্ম ১৯৫৬ সালে, সিলেট জেলার ফুলবাড়ী গ্রামে। তাঁর পৈতৃক নিবাস মৌলভীবাজার জেলার কুলাউড়া উপজেলায়। তিনি যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের ইউনিভার্সিটি অব ম্যাসাচুসেটস থেকে আন্তর্জাতিক শিক্ষা বিষয়ে পিএইচডি। খণ্ডকালীন অধ্যাপক ছিলেন ইউনিভার্সিটি অব ম্যাসাচুসেটস এবং স্কুল অব হিউম্যান সার্ভিসেসের। ছিলেন ইউনিভার্সিটি অব সাউথ আফ্রিকার ভিজিটিং স্কলার। শিক্ষকতা, গবেষণা ও কনসালট্যান্সির কাজে বহু দেশ ভ্রমণ করেছেন। তাঁর ‘জিম্বাবুয়ে : বোবা পাথর সালানিনি’ গ্রন্থটি প্রথম আলো বর্ষসেরা বই হিসেবে পুরস্কৃত হয়। ২০১৪ সালে ভ্রমণসাহিত্যে সামগ্রিক অবদানের জন্য পান বাংলা একাডেমি পুরস্কার। প্রাচীন মুদ্রা, সূচিশিল্প, পাণ্ডুলিপি, ফসিল ও পুরোনো মানচিত্র সংগ্রহের নেশা আছে মঈনুস সুলতানের।
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Atin Bandyopadhyay
Atin Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: অতীন বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; anglicised spelling of surname: Banerjee) is a noted writer of Bengali literature. He was born in 1934 in Rainadi, Dhaka.
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He spent his childhood in a joint family set-up in the then East Bengal of undivided India and studied in Sonar Gaon Panam School. After the Partition, migrated to India. He earned his undergraduate degree in commerce in 1956 and subsequently earned a teacher's training degree, all from the University of Calcutta. He took various jobs as a sailor, truck-cleaner, primary school teacher. Also became headmaster of a senior basic school. Settled permanently in Kolkata in 1963. Here also he took on various jobs like factory manager, publication advisor and lastly journalist.
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Parimal Bhattacharya
পরিমল ভট্টাচার্য বাংলা ও ইংরেজি দুই ভাষাতেই লেখেন। স্মৃতিকথা, ভ্রমণ আখ্যান, ইতিহাস ও অন্যান্য রচনাশৈলী থেকে উপাদান নিয়ে তিনি গড়ে তুলেছেন এক নতুন বিশিষ্ট গদ্যধারা, নিয়মগিরির সংগ্রামী জনজাতি থেকে তারকোভস্কির স্বপ্ন পর্যন্ত যার বিষয়-বিস্তার। ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের অধ্যাপক। কলকাতায় থাকেন।
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