Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

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  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.
  
  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

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  Paulo Coelho

  The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub

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  Rabindranath Tagore

  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."
  
  Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as nat

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  Sunil Gangopadhyay

  Sunil Gangopadhyay (Bengali: সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়) was a famous Indian poet and novelist. Born in Faridpur, Bangladesh, Gangopadhyay obtained his Master's degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta, In 1953 he started a Bengali poetry magazine Krittibas. Later he wrote for many different publications.
  
  Ganguly created the Bengali fictional character Kakababu and wrote a series of novels on this character which became significant in Indian children's literature. He received Sahitya Academy award in 1985 for his novel Those Days (সেই সময়). Gangopadhyay used the pen names Nil Lohit, Sanatan Pathak, and Nil Upadhyay.
  
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  Author of well over 200 books, Sunil was a prolific writer who has excelled in different genres but declares poetry to b

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  Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

  Complete works of Sarat Chandra (শরৎ রচনাবলী) is now available in this third party website:
  http://sarat-rachanabali.becs.ac.in/i...
  
  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.
  
  His childhood and youth were spent in dire poverty as his father, Motilal Chattopadhyay, was an idler and dreamer and gave little security to his five children. Saratchandra received very little formal education but inherited something valuable from his father—his imagination and love of literature.
  
  He started writing in his early teens and two stories written then have survived—‘Korel’ and ‘Kashinath’. Sara

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  Manik Bandopadhyay

  Manik Bandopadhyay (Bengali: মানিক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bangla fiction. During a short lifespan of forty-eight years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and 177 short-stories. His important works include Padma Nadir Majhi (The Boatman on The River Padma, 1936) and Putul Nacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale, 1936), Shahartali (The Suburbia, 1941) and Chatushkone (The Quadrilateral, 1948).

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  Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

  Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bengali: বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) ('Chattopadhyay' in the original Bengali; 'Chatterjee' as spelt by the British) was a Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram or Bande Mataram, that inspired the freedom fighters of India, and was later declared the National Song of India.
  
  Complete works of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (বঙ্কিম রচনাবলী) is now available in this third party website (in Bengali):
  https://bankim-rachanabali.nltr.org/
  
  Chatterjee is considered 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 provi

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  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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  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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  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।
  
  Akhteruzzaman Elias

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  Mahasweta Devi

  Mahasweta Devi was an Indian social activist and writer. She was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well-known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa. Mahasweta's mother Dharitri Devi was also a writer and a social worker.
  
  She joined the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Vishvabharati University in Santiniketan and completed a B.A. (Hons) in English, and then finished an M.A. in English at Calcutta University as well. She later married renowned playwright Bijon Bhattacharya who was one of the founding fathers of the IPTA movement. In 1948, she gave birth to Nabarun Bhattacharya, currently one of Bengal's and India's leading novelist whose works are n

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  Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

  This author has secondary bangla profile-বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়.
  
  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.
  
  The 1951 Rabindra Puraskar, the most prestigious literary award in the West Bengal state of India, was posthumously awarded to Bibhutibhushan for his novel ইছামতী.

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  Satyajit Ray

  Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিৎ রায়) was an Indian filmmaker and author of Bengali fiction and regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and watching Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist 1948 film, Bicycle Thieves.
  
  Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents.
  
  Ray's first film, P

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  Ahmed Sofa

  Ahmed Sofa (Bangla: আহমদ ছফা) was a well-known Bangladeshi philosopher, poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator. Sofa was renowned for his intellectual righteousness as well as his holistic approach to the understanding of social dynamics and international politics. His career as a writer began in the 1960s. He never married. On 28 July 2001, Ahmed Sofa died in a hospital in Dhaka. He was buried in Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard.
  
  Sofa helped establishing Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir (Bangladesh Writers' Camp) in 1970 to organize liberal writers in order to further the cause of the progressive movement.
  
  Ahmed Sofa's outspoken personality and bold self-expression brought him into the limelight. He was never seen hankering after fame in a tri

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  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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  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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  Humayun Ahmed

  Humayun Ahmed (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আহমেদ; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. He was the most famous and popular author, dramatist and filmmaker ever to grace the cultural world of Bangladesh since its independence in 1971. Dawn referred to him as the cultural legend of Bangladesh. Humayun started his journey to reach fame with the publication of his novel Nondito Noroke (In Blissful Hell) in 1972, which remains one of his most famous works. He wrote over 250 fiction and non-fiction books, all of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh, most of them were number one bestsellers of their respective years by a wide margin. In recognition to the works of Humayun, Times of Indi

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  Manindra Gupta

  মণীন্দ্র গুপ্তর জন্ম ১৯২৬ সালে অবিভক্ত বাংলার বরিশালের গৈলা গ্রামে। কৈশোর কাটিয়েছেন অসমের বরাক উপত্যকায় মামার বাড়িতে। একই সঙ্গে কবি, প্রাবন্ধিক, কথাসাহিত্যিক ও চিত্রশিল্পী মণীন্দ্রবাবু দ্বিতীয় বিশ্বযুদ্ধে ব্রিটিশ ভারতীয় সেনাবাহিনীতে যোগ দেন।
  কবিতা লিখেছেন ১৯৪০-এর দশক থেকে। প্রথম কবিতার বই ‘নীল পাথরের আকাশ’ প্রকাশিত হয় অনেক পরে, ১৯৬৯ সালে। লিখতে এসেই পাঠকের নজর কাড়েন তিনি। বাংলা কবিতার তৎকালীন অভিমুখের সম্পূর্ণ বিপরীতেই অবস্থান করছিল তাঁর রচনা। এর পরে প্রকাশিত হয় ‘মৌপোকাদের গ্রাম’, ‘লাল স্কুলবাড়ি’, ‘ছত্রপলাশ চৈত্যে দিনশেষে’, ‘শরৎমেঘ ও কাশফুলের বন্ধু’ অত্যাদি কাব্যগ্রন্থ। ১৯৯১-এ বের হয় তাঁর আলোড়ন তোলা প্রবন্ধ গ্রন্থ ‘চাঁদের ওপিঠে’।
  ১৯৯১-এ প্রকাশিত হয় আত্মজীবনী ‘অক্ষয় মালবেরি’-র প্রথম খণ্ড। তিন খণ্ডে বিন্যস্ত এই লিখন বাংলা সাহিত্যের এক উল্ল

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  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.
  
  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

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  Kallol Lahiri

  চলচ্চিত্র বিষয়ে অধ্যাপনা, তথ্যচিত্র নির্মাণ, ফিল্ম, টেলিভিশন ধারাবাহিক ও ওয়েব সিরিজের চিত্রনাট্য রচনা এবং তার ফাঁকে ফাঁকে নিজের ব্লগে নানা স্বাদের লেখালেখি-এইসব নিয়েই কল্লোল লাহিড়ী। প্রকাশিত উপন্যাস গোরা নকশাল (২০১৭)। ইন্দুবালা ভাতের হোটেল(২০২০)। নাইনটিন নাইনটি আ লাভ স্টোরি (২০২২)। ঘুমিয়ে পড়ার আগে (২০২৪)। স্মৃতিগদ্য গ্রন্থ বাবার ইয়াশিকা ক্যামেরা (২০২১)। লেখক গোরা নকশাল এবং ইন্দুবালা ভাতের হোটেল উপন্যাস দুটির জন্য দুহাজার একুশ সালে ভূমধ্যসাগর পত্রিকার 'শ্রীমতী সাধনা সেন সম্মান'-এ সম্মানিত।

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