Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bengali: কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম) was a Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of Bidrohi Kobi (Rebel Poet). Accomplishing a large body of acclaimed works through his life, Nazrul is officially recognised as the national poet of Bangladesh and commemorated in India.
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আরিফ আজাদ একজন জীবন্ত আলোকবর্তিকা - লেখক আরিফ আজাদকে বর্ণনা করতে গিয়ে একথাই বলেছেন ডঃ শামসুল আরেফিন। গার্ডিয়ান প্রকাশনী আরিফ আজাদের পরিচয় দিতে গিয়ে লিখেছে, “তিনি বিশ্বাস নিয়ে লেখেন, অবিশ্বাসের আয়না চূর্ণবিচুর্ণ করেন।” আরিফ আজাদ এর বই মানেই একুশে বইমেলায় বেস্ট সেলার, এতটাই জনপ্রিয় এ লেখক। সাম্প্রতিককালে বাংলাদেশের সাহিত্য অঙ্গনে সবচেয়ে আলোড়ন তোলা লেখকদের একজন আরিফ আজাদ।
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১৯৯০ সালের ৭ই জানুয়ারি চট্টগ্রামে জন্ম নেয়া এ লেখক মাধ্যমিক শিক্ষাজীবন শেষ করে চট্টগ্রাম জিলা স্কুলে। একটি সরকারি কলেজে উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক পাস করে চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে ভর্তি হন এবং সেখানে উচ্চশিক্ষা সম্পন্ন করেন।
লেখালেখির ক্যারিয়ারের শুরু থেকেই আরিফ আজাদ এর বই সমূহ পাঠক মহলে ব্যাপক সাড়া ফেলে। তার প্রথম বই ‘প্যারাডক্সিক্যাল সাজিদ’ ২০১৭ সালের একুশে বইমেলায় প্রকাশ পায়। বইটির কেন -
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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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.
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Literary awards:
Bangla Academy Literary Award (1963)
Ekushey Padak (1997)
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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.
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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.
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Golam Mostofa
গোলাম মোস্তফা একজন বাঙালি লেখক এবং কবি। তিনি বাংলা সাহিত্যে মুসলিম রেঁনেসার কবি নামে পরিচিত।
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গোলাম মোস্তফার জন্ম ১৮৯৭ সালে যশোর জেলার ঝিনাইদহ মহকুমার শৈলকূপা থানার অন্তর্গত মনোহরপুর গ্রামে। তাঁর পিতা ও পিতামহ ছিলেন সাহিত্যানুরাগী-ফারসী ও আরবী ভাষায় সুপণ্ডিত। তাঁর তিন পুত্রের মাঝে একজন হলেন বিখ্যাত পাপেটনির্মাতা ও চিত্রশিল্পী মুস্তফা মনোয়ার।
মুসলিম জাগরণের অগ্রদূত হিসেবে বাংলা সাহিত্যে তাঁর অবদান এক বিরল দৃষ্টান্ত। স্কুলজীবনেই এই কবির সাহিত্য প্রতিভার বিকাশ ঘটে। এ সময় তাঁর ‘আর্দ্রিয়ানোপল উদ্ধার’ কবিতাটি মাসিক মোহাম্মদী পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত হয়। তাঁর প্রথম কাব্য গ্রন্থ ‘রক্তরাগ’ প্রকাশিত হলে বিশ্বকবি রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর তাঁকে কবিতার মাধ্যমে অভিনন্দিত করেছিলেন।
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Zahir Raihan
Zahir Raihan (Bangla: জহির রায়হান) was a Bangladeshi novelist, writer and filmmaker. He is perhaps best known for his documentary Stop Genocide made during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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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
This author has secondary bangla profile-বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়.
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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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Syed Waliullah
Syed Waliullah was born on 15 August 1922 at Sholashahar in Chittagong. After completing his Bachelor’s from Ananda Mohan College in Mymensingh, he enrolled at Calcutta University but did not complete his Master’s. Proficient in both Bangla and English, he worked for the Statesman during 1945-1947. After the Partition, he moved to Dhaka and joined Radio Pakistan as assistant news editor. In 1950 he was posted to Radio Pakistan, Karachi. From 1951 to 1960 he served as press attache at Pakistan missions in New Delhi, Sydney, Jakarta and London. It was in Sydney that Waliullah met Anne-Marie Thibaud, whom he later married and who translated Lal Shalu into French. In 1960 Waliullah moved to Paris where he served as first secretary at the Pakist
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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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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Complete works of Sarat Chandra (শরৎ রচনাবলী) is now available in this third party website:
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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.
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.
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Jibanananda Das
Jibanananda Das (bn: জীবনানন্দ দাশ) is probably the most popular Bengali poet. He is considered one of the precursors who introduced modernist poetry to Bengali Literature, at a period when it was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore's Romantic poetry. During the later half of the twentieth century, Jibanananda Das emerged as the most popular poet of modern Bengali literature. Popularity apart, Jibanananda Das had distinguished himself as an extraordinary poet presenting a paradigm hitherto unknown. It is a fact that his unfamiliar poetic diction, choice of words and thematic preferences took time to reach the heart of the readers. Towards the later half of the twentieth century the poetry of Jibanananda has become the defining essence of mode
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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."
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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 -
R.C. Majumdar
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (known as R. C. Majumdar; 4 December 1888 – 11 February 1980) was a historian and professor of Indian history.
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Born at Khandarpara, in Faridpur District (now in Bangladesh) on 4 December 1888, to Haladhar Majumdar and Bidhumukhi, Majumdar passed his childhood in poverty. In 1905, he passed his Entrance Examination from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack. In 1907, he passed F.A. with first class scholarship from Ripon College (now Surendranath College) and joined Presidency College, Calcutta. Graduating in B.A.(Honours) in 1909 and MA from Calcutta University in 1911, he won the Premchand Roychand scholarship from the University of Calcutta for his research work in 1913.
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Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (Bangla: উপেন্দ্রকিশোর রায়চৌধুরী), also known as Upendrokishore Ray (উপেন্দ্রকিশোর রায়) was a famous writer, painter, violin player and composer, technologist and entrepreneur.
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He was the father of the famous writer Sukumar Ray and grandfather of the renowned film-maker Satyajit Ray. Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury was a product and leading member of the Brahmo Movement that spearheaded the cultural rejuvenation of Bengal. As a writer he is best known for his collection of folklore; as a printer he pioneered in India in the art of engraving and was the first to attempt color printing at the time when engraving and color printing were also being pioneered in the West.
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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 -
Imtiaz Mahmud
ইমতিয়াজ মাহমুদের জন্ম ১৯৮০ সালের ২৪ ফেব্রুয়ারি। ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের আন্তর্জাতিক সম্পর্কে স্নাতক। ফরাসি বার্তা সংস্থা এএফপিতে এক বছর কাজ করার পর ২০০৬ সাল থেকে সিভিল সার্ভিসে কর্মরত। প্রথম কবিতা প্রকাশিত হয় পাক্ষিক শৈলী পত্রিকায় ১৯৯৯ সালে।
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প্রকাশিত বইয়ের মাঝে আছে অন্ধকারের রোদ্দুরে (২০০০), মৃত্যুর জন্মদাতা (২০০২), সার্কাসের সঙ (২০০৮), মানুষ দেখতে কেমন (২০১০), নদীর চোখে পানি ও অন্যান্য কোয়াটরেন (২০১৩), পেন্টাকল (২০১৫), ম্যাক্সিম (২০১৬), কালো কৌতুক (২০১৬) প্রভৃতি। পেন্টাকল কাব্যগ্রন্থের জন্য তাঁর ঝুলিতে এসেছে কলকাতার কৃত্তিবাস পুরস্কার। -
Jibanananda Das
Jibanananda Das (bn: জীবনানন্দ দাশ) is probably the most popular Bengali poet. He is considered one of the precursors who introduced modernist poetry to Bengali Literature, at a period when it was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore's Romantic poetry. During the later half of the twentieth century, Jibanananda Das emerged as the most popular poet of modern Bengali literature. Popularity apart, Jibanananda Das had distinguished himself as an extraordinary poet presenting a paradigm hitherto unknown. It is a fact that his unfamiliar poetic diction, choice of words and thematic preferences took time to reach the heart of the readers. Towards the later half of the twentieth century the poetry of Jibanananda has become the defining essence of mode
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Golam Mostofa
গোলাম মোস্তফা একজন বাঙালি লেখক এবং কবি। তিনি বাংলা সাহিত্যে মুসলিম রেঁনেসার কবি নামে পরিচিত।
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গোলাম মোস্তফার জন্ম ১৮৯৭ সালে যশোর জেলার ঝিনাইদহ মহকুমার শৈলকূপা থানার অন্তর্গত মনোহরপুর গ্রামে। তাঁর পিতা ও পিতামহ ছিলেন সাহিত্যানুরাগী-ফারসী ও আরবী ভাষায় সুপণ্ডিত। তাঁর তিন পুত্রের মাঝে একজন হলেন বিখ্যাত পাপেটনির্মাতা ও চিত্রশিল্পী মুস্তফা মনোয়ার।
মুসলিম জাগরণের অগ্রদূত হিসেবে বাংলা সাহিত্যে তাঁর অবদান এক বিরল দৃষ্টান্ত। স্কুলজীবনেই এই কবির সাহিত্য প্রতিভার বিকাশ ঘটে। এ সময় তাঁর ‘আর্দ্রিয়ানোপল উদ্ধার’ কবিতাটি মাসিক মোহাম্মদী পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত হয়। তাঁর প্রথম কাব্য গ্রন্থ ‘রক্তরাগ’ প্রকাশিত হলে বিশ্বকবি রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর তাঁকে কবিতার মাধ্যমে অভিনন্দিত করেছিলেন।
তাঁর পরবর্তী গ্রন্থাবলীর মধ্যে ‘হাসনাহেনা’ (কাব্যগ্রন্থ) ‘খোশরোজ’ (কাব্যগ্রন্থ), ’সাহা -
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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Nirmalendu Goon
Nirmalendu Goon (Bengali: নির্মলেন্দু গুন) is one of the most popular Bangladeshi poets known for his accessible verse. He was born in Kashbon in Barhatta in Netrokona, Bangladesh.
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His first book of poetry was published in 1970. Since then he has published forty five collections of poetry and twenty collections of prose. Part of the generation of poets of 1960s, Goon's poetry contains stinging criticism of the nouveau riche and a touching description of the contrasting fate of the masses. A love of freedom and faith in the human spirit also permeates many of his poems. An avowed Marxist, Goon has also written poems urging an upheaval of the poor against the rich. He also has written a number of poems on important personalities, including Rab -
Abul Mansur Ahmed
Abul Mansur Ahmed (Bangla: আবুল মনসুর আহমেদ) (1898–1979) was a Bangladeshi politician and journalist. His political career helped him writing political satire. He is the most famous political satirist in Bangla literature.
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He was honored with Bangla Academy Award in 1960 and Swadhinota Dibosh Padak (Independence Day Medal) in 1979. Tahmima Anam is his granddaughter. -
Helal Hafiz
Helal Hafiz was a Bangladeshi poet. He is considered a true representative of poets of his generation having certain creative traits in an age when his nation and countries in the neighbourhood witnessed dramatic transitions particularly in the arena of politics. He won Bangla Academy Literary Award (2013).
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Sudhindranath Dutta
Sudhindranath Dutta (Bengali: সুধীন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত; 1901–1960) was a Bengali Indian post-modern poet, essayist, journalist and critic. He is one of the most influential five poets of the 20th century who introduced modernity to Bengali poetry.
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Sudhindranath is one of the most notable poets after the Tagore-era in Bengali literature. Born to renowned lawyer Hirendranath Dutta & Indumati Vasu Mallik (sister of Raja Subodh Chandra Vasu Mallik), he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. But however he failed to complete his degrees, and decided to prepare for attorneyship under his father. He completed that neither. He married Chhabi Basu in 1924.
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Qazi Imdadul Haq
Qazi Imdadul Haq (Bengali: কাজী ইমদাদুল হক) was a Bengali writer. Haq was involved with M. Hedayetullah, Syed Emdad Ali and M. Asad Ali to publish monthly Nabanur and was president of the Publication Committee of the Bangiya Mussalman Sahitya Patrika, a Bengali literary quarterly. Later, Haq became an editor of Shiksak, an educational monthly magazine and remained with this magazine for three years. He was also a writer and earned considerable fame for his poems, novels, essays, and children's literature.
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Literary Works
* Abdullah
* Alexandriar Prachin Pustakagar (The Ancient Library of Alexandria)
* Abdur Rahmaner Kirti (The great deeds of Abdur Rahman)
* France-e Muslim Odhikar (Muslim Conquest of France)
* Alhamra
* Pagal Kholifa (The Crazy Cal