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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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 -
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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Shahriar Kabir
Shahriar Kabir (in Bengali: শাহরিয়ার কবির) is a Bangladeshi journalist, filmmaker, human rights activist and author. His books focuses on human rights, communism, fundamentalism, history, juvenile and the Bangladesh war of independence.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. In these works Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
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An ardent socialist, Shaw was angered by what he perceived to be the exploitation of the working class. He wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Societ -
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 -
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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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.
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 -
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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Anthony Mascarenhas
Neville Anthony Mascarenhas (10 July 1928 – 3 December 1986) was a Pakistani journalist and author. His works include exposés on the brutality of Pakistan's military during the 1971 independence movement of Bangladesh, The Rape of Bangladesh (1972) and Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood (1986).
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Mascarenhas was born into a Goan Catholic family in Belgaum, and educated in Karachi.He and his wife Yvonne Mascarenhas together had five children. He died in 1986.
Mascarenhas was a journalist who was the assistant editor at The Morning News (Karachi).[3] After collecting information on the atrocities committed in Bangladesh, he realised he could not publish the story in Pakistan and contacted Harold Evans of The Sunday Times. Before the publication of his -
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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Tarasankar is one of those writers of the third decades of the twentieth centuries who broke the poetic tradition in novels but took to writing prose with the world around them adding romance to human relationship -
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.
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. -
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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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 -
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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Bangla Academy Literary Award (1963)
Ekushey Padak (1997)
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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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Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায় একজন ভারতীয় বাঙালি সাহিত্যিক।
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তিনি ব্রিটিশ ভারতের বেঙ্গল প্রেসিডেন্সির অন্তর্গত ময়মনসিংহে (বর্তমানে বাংলাদেশের অংশ) জন্মগ্রহণ করেন—যেখানে তাঁর জীবনের প্রথম এগারো বছর কাটে। ভারত বিভাজনের সময় তাঁর পরিবার কলকাতা চলে আসে। এই সময় রেলওয়েতে চাকুরিরত পিতার সঙ্গে তিনি অসম, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ও বিহারের বিভিন্ন স্থানে তাঁর জীবন অতিবাহিত করেন। তিনি কোচবিহারের ভিক্টোরিয়া কলেজ থেকে মাধ্যমিক শিক্ষা সম্পন্ন করেন। পরে কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে বাংলায় স্নাতকোত্তর ডিগ্রি লাভ করেন। শীর্ষেন্দু একজন বিদ্যালয়ের শিক্ষক হিসেবে তাঁর কর্মজীবন শুরু করেন। বর্তমানে তিনি আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা ও দেশ পত্রিকার সঙ্গে জড়িত।
তাঁর প্রথম গল্প জলতরঙ্গ শিরোনামে ১৯৫৯ খ্রিস্টাব্দে দেশ পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত হয়। সাত বছর পরে সেই একই পত্রিকার পূজাবার্ষিকীতে তাঁর প্রথম -
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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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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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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