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
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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. -
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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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.
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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.
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Bibhuti Pattnaik
Bibhuti Pattnaik is an Odia novelist and columnist. Entered as a college lecturer in the Dept.of Odia Language and literature in the year 1970 and retired as a Reader, in the year 1995.
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Syed Mujtaba Ali
Syed Mujtaba Ali (Bengali: সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী) was a Bengali author, academician, scholar and linguist.
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Syed Mujtaba Ali was born in Karimganj district (in present-day Assam, India). In 1919, he was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore and started writing to the poet. In 1921, Mujtaba joined the Indian freedom struggle and left his school in Sylhet. He went to Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and graduated in 1926. He was among the first graduates of the university. Later, he moved to Kabul to work in the education department (1927–1929). From 1929 to 1932 he studied at the universities in Berlin, London, Paris and Bonn. He earned Ph.D. degree from University of Bonn with a dissertation on comparative religious studies in Khojas in 1932.
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H. Rider Haggard
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire.
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His breakout novel was King Solomon's Mines (1885), which was to be the first in a series telling of the multitudinous adventures of its protagonist, Allan Quatermain.
Haggard was made a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Conservative candidate for the Eastern division of Norf -
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 -
Motiur Rahman Rentu
মতিয়ুর রহমান রেন্টু বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধের একজন অংশগ্রহণকারী মুক্তিযোদ্ধা এবং বিতর্কিত লেখক। তিনি ১৯৭১ সালের মহান মুক্তিযুদ্ধে অকুতোভয়ে লড়াই করেছেন এবং দেশের স্বাধীনতার জন্য জীবন বাজি রেখেছেন। তাঁর মুক্তিযোদ্ধা হিসেবে অবদান স্বীকৃত, যা প্রমাণিত হয় সরকারি নথিপত্রে তাঁর নাম অন্তর্ভুক্তি এবং ভারত সরকারের দেওয়া বিরল সনদের মাধ্যমে।
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রেন্টু গোপালগঞ্জের মুকসুদপুরের আব্দুল বারীর পুত্র ছিলেন। তিনি আনুমানিক ১৯৫৪ সালে জন্মগ্রহণ করেছিলেন। তিনি ১৯৮১ থেকে ১৯৯৭ সাল পর্যন্ত আওয়ামী লীগ সভানেত্রী শেখ হাসিনার সাথে ঘনিষ্ঠ কর্মসম্পর্ক বজায় রেখেছিলেন এবং তাঁর সহকারী হিসেবে কাজ করেছিলেন।
তাঁর সবচেয়ে বিখ্যাত ও বিতর্কিত রচনা "আমার ফাঁসি চাই", যা প্রথম ১৯৯৯ সালের মার্চ মাসে প্রকাশিত হয়। এই বইয়ের মাধ্যমে তিনি তৎকালীন আওয়ামী লীগ সরকার ও রাজনৈতিক নেতৃত্বে -
Lesley Hazleton
1. My new book 'Jezebel: the untold story of the bible's harlot queen' is just out (Doubleday). Yes, she was framed. No, she was no harlot. Yes, she was magnificent.
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2. Won't bore you with the whole bio -- it's in the 'About the Author' page on www.jezebelbook.com. For now: British-born, lived for a long time in the Middle East, now live in the very Pacific Northwest.
3. Favorite drink is grappa.
Natural habitat is high desert (which must have something to do with my living on a houseboat/floating home at sea level...)
Am gnostic agnostic (and yes, will write a long piece/short book explaining that one day). -
Sadat Hossain
Sadat Hossain (born 29 June 1984) is a Bangladeshi author, screenwriter, film-maker, and novelist. Sadat Hossain was born In Madaripur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He studied anthropology at Jahangirnagar University. He was a photojournalist in a newspaper. Then the editor told him that he should write the story of those photos. Eventually, with these, he published his first book in 2013 named Golpochobi. Then, he started to write short stories. In 2014 Janalar Opashe published. In 2015 Aarshinagor is the first book when people recognize him in 2015.[4] Besides writing he has interest in filmmaking as well. He has a production house named ‘ASH’ Production house, released a number of visual contents like short films, dramas, music videos, documentari
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Syed Mustafa Siraj
Syed Mustafa Siraj (Bengali: সৈয়দ মুস্তাফা সিরাজ) is an eminent Bengali writer. In 1994, he received the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Aleek Manush (অলীক মানুষ). In 2005, his short story Ranirghater Brittanto (রানীরঘাটের বৃত্তান্ত) was made into the film "Faltu" by Anjan Das.
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He was born in a village named Khoshbaspur in the district of Murshidabad in 1930. In his early days, he enjoyed a bohemian life style. Once he joined a folk drama group 'Aalkaap' (আলকাপ) and travelled the districts of Murshidabad, Malda, Burdwan, Birbhum and also performed in Kolkata. In those days, he used to perform whole night and sleep in day time. He used to play flute. He was a teacher of folk dance and drama. But oneday he got tired of this life and felt -
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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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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Creative efforts :
An incomplete bibliography lists 125 books including a collection of short stories, five books under joint authorship, 9 translated books and 19 edited -
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 -
Samaresh Majumdar
Samaresh Majumdar (Bangla: সমরেশ মজুমদার) was a well-known Bengali writer. He spent his childhood years in the tea gardens of Duars, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. He was a student of the Jalpaiguri Zilla School, Jalpaiguri. He completed his bachelors in Bengali from Scottish Church College, Kolkata. His first story appeared in "Desh" (a Bengali magazine) in 1967. "Dour" (Run) was his first novel, which was published in "Desh" in 1976.
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Author of novels, short stories and travelogues, Samaresh received the Indian government's coveted Sahitya Akademi award for the second book of the Animesh series, Kalbela.
Some of his famous characters are:
1. Animesh & Madhabilata of Animesh trilogy (Uttaradhikar, Kaalbela, and Kalpurush)
2. Arjun - the sleuth -
Smaranjit Chakraborty
স্মরণজিৎ চক্রবর্তীর জন্ম ১৯ জুন ১৯৭৬, কলকাতায়। বর্তমানে দক্ষিণ কলকাতার বাসিন্দা। পৈতৃক ব্যবসায় যুক্ত। প্রথম ছোটগল্প উনিশ কুড়ি-র প্রথম সংখ্যায় প্রকাশিত। প্রথম ধারাবাহিক দেশ পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত।
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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 -
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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Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন) is an award-winning Bangladeshi writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. Early in her literary career, she wrote mainly poetry, and published half a dozen collections of poetry between 1982 and 1993, often with female oppression as a theme. She started publishing prose in the early 1990s, and produced three collections of essays and four novels before the publication of her 1993 novel Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা Lôjja), or Shame. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Ba
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Selina Hossain
Selina Hossain (Bangla: সেলিনা হোসেন) is a famous novelist in Bangladesh. She was honored with Bangla Academy Award in 1980. she was the director of Bangla Academy from 1997 to 2004.
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সেলিনা হোসেন (জন্ম: ১৯৪৭) বাংলাদেশের অগ্রগণ্য কথাসাহিত্যিকদের অন্যতম। তিনি রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে বাংলা ভাষা ও সাহিত্যে বি এ অনার্স পাশ করলেন ১৯৬৭ সালে। এম এ পাশ করেন ১৯৬৮ সালে। তাঁর কর্মজীবন শুরু হয় ১৯৭০ সালে বাংলা একাডেমীর গবেষণা সহকারী হিসেবে। তিনি ১৯৯৭ সালে বাংলা একাডেমীর প্রথম মহিলা পরিচালক হন। ২০০৪ সালের ১৪ জুন চাকুরি থেকে অবসর নেন।
গল্প ও উপন্যাসে সিদ্ধহস্ত। এ পর্যন্ত ৭টি গল্প সংকলন, ২০টি উপন্যাস, ৫টি শিশুতোষ গল্প, ৫টি প্রবন্ধের বই প্রকাশিত হয়েছে। এছাড়াও সম্পাদনা করেছেন বেশ কিছু বই। সাহিত্যে অবদানের স্বীকৃতি হিসাবে প্রাপ্ত উল্লেখযোগ্য পুরস্কারের মধ -
Narayan Sanyal
Narayan Sanyal (bn: নারায়ণ সান্যাল) was a well-known & versatile writer of modern Bengali literature. He received several awards for literature including Rabindra Puraskar for Aporupa Ajanta (Bangla: অপরূপা অজন্তা) in 1969, Bankim Puraskar for Rupmonjori (Bangla: রূপমঞ্জরী) in 2000, and Narasingha Dutta Award. Many of his books were filmed and he won the Best Film Story Writer Award for Shotyokam (Bangla: সত্যকাম) by Bengal Film Journalists.
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Sanyal wrote numerous books that dealt with many topics, such as children, science, art and architecture, travels, psychiatry, technology, refugee problems, history, biographical pieces, encyclopedia of animals, social novel and Devadasi-related. He also wrote a series of detective fiction called the Ka -
Hasan Azizul Huq
Hasan Azizul Huq (Bengali: হাসান আজিজুল হক) is a Bangladeshi writer, reputed for his short stories. He was born on 2 February, 1939 in Jabgraam in Burdwan district of West Bengal, India. However, later his parents moved to Fultala, near the city of Khulna, Bangladesh. He was a professor in the department of philosophy in Rajshahi University.
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Huq is well known for his experiments with the language and introducing modern idioms in his writings. His use of language and symbolism has earned him critical acclaim. His stories explore the psychological depths of human beings as well as portray the lives of the peasants of Bangladesh.
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Hesham Al-Awadi
He was born in Kuwait and educated in the United Kingdom.
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He completed his BA, MA, MPhil and PhD in the fields History, Politics, International Relations and Communication in various British universities including the University of Cambridge and Exeter.
He taught history for graduates and undergraduates at George Washington University in the States, and at Exeter University in the UK.
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Surendra Mohanty
Surendra Mohanty born in Orissa was an award-winning author who wrote in Oriya.[1] He was the recipient of the Orissa Sahitya Academy Award for his novel Nilashaila.
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He was the President of Orissa Sahitya Academy from the year 1981 to 1987. He was also the first editor, and later chief editor for the newspaper The Sambad.[2] He is a writer of short stories, novels, travelogues, criticism and biographies. He wrote around 50 books belonging to different genres. His well known books are Mahanagarira Ratri (The Night of the Metropolis), Maralara Mrutyu (The Death of a Swan), Andha Diganta (The Dark Horizon), and Mahanirvana (The Final Departure). Yadubamsa O Anyaanya Galpa (The Yadubamsa and other stories), Rajadhani O Anyaanya Galpa (The Capita -
Ashapurna Devi
Ashapurna Devi (Bengali: আশাপূর্ণা দেবী), also Ashapoorna Debi or Asha Purna Devi, is a prominent Bengali novelist and poet. She has been widely honoured with a number of prizes and awards. She was awarded 1976 Jnanpith Award and the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1976; D.Litt by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur. Vishwa Bharati University honoured her with Deshikottama in 1989. For her contribution as a novelist and short story writer, the Sahitya Akademi conferred its highest honour, the Fellowship, in 1994.
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Shakti Chattopadhyay
শক্তি চট্টোপাধ্যায়-এর জন্ম ২৫ নভেম্বর ১৯৩৩, বহড়ু, চব্বিশ পরগনা। শৈশবে পিতৃহীন। বহড়ুতে মাতামহের কাছে ও বাগবাজারে মাতুলালয়ে বড় হন। পড়াশোনা: বহড়ু হাইস্কুল, মহারাজা কাশিমবাজার স্কুল, প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ; যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে তুলনামূলক সাহিত্যে অধ্যয়ন অসমাপ্ত। বুদ্ধদেব বসু সম্পাদিত ‘কবিতা’ পত্রিকায় ‘যম’ কবিতা লিখে (১৯৫৬) সাহিত্যজগতে প্রবেশ। যুক্ত ছিলেন কৃত্তিবাস পত্রিকার সঙ্গে। ‘কবিতা সাপ্তাহিকী’ পত্রিকা প্রকাশ করে আলোড়ন তুলেছিলেন কবিতাজগতে৷ প্রণীত, অনূদিত-সম্পাদিত কবিতা ও গদ্যগ্রন্থের সংখ্যা শতাধিক, তা ছাড়া অজস্র অগ্রন্থিত রচনা ছড়িয়ে আছে পত্রপত্রিকায়। পেয়েছেন আনন্দ পুরস্কার, সাহিত্য অকাদেমি পুরস্কার, সম্বলপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের গঙ্গাধর মেহের পুরস্কার, মরণোত্তর রবীন্দ্র পুরস্কার। জীবিকাক্ষেত্রে সাংবাদিক হিসেবে যুক্ত ছিলেন আনন্দবাজা
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Shyamal Gangopadhyay
শ্যামল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়ের জন্ম অবিভক্ত ভারতের খুলনাতে (অধুনা বাংলাদেশ)। খুলনা জিলা স্কুলে তাঁর প্রাথমিক শিক্ষা। দেশভাগের পর ১৯৪৭ সালে তাঁর পরিবার কলকাতায় চলে আসে। শ্যামল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় প্রথম জীবনে আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকায় কর্মরত ছিলেন, ১৯৬১ সালে আনন্দবাজারে যোগ দেওয়ার পর তাঁর ছোটগল্প ‘হাজরা নস্করের যাত্রাসঙ্গী’, ‘ধানকেউটে’ ইত্যাদি প্রকাশিত হয়। তাঁর প্রথম উপন্যাস ‘বৃহন্নলা’, কিন্তু দেশ পত্রিকায় ধারাবাহিকভাবে ‘কুবেরের বিষয় আশয়’ প্রকাশিত হওয়ার পরেই শ্যামলের লেখনী বাংলা পাঠকমহলে সমাদৃত হয়। ব্যক্তিজীবনে বোহেমিয়ান, সুরসিক ও আড্ডাবাজ ছিলেন তিনি। আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা গোষ্ঠীর অন্যতম কর্তা সন্তোষকুমার ঘোষের সাথে তাঁর মনোমালিন্য হওয়ায় যুগান্তরে যোগ দেন। যুগান্তরের সাহিত্য পত্রিকা অমৃত সম্পাদনা করতেন। ১৯৯০ সালে অবসরের পরে আজকাল পত্রিকা ও সাপ্তাহিক বর্
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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। -
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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Sukumar Ray
Sukumar Ray (Bangla: সুকুমার রায়) was a Bengali humorous poet, story writer and playwright. As perhaps the most famous Indian practitioner of literary nonsense, he is often compared to Lewis Carroll.
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His works such as the collection of poems Aboltabol (Bengali: আবোলতাবোল), novella HaJaBaRaLa (Bengali: হযবরল), short story collection Pagla Dashu (Bengali: পাগলা দাশু) and play Chalachittachanchari (Bengali: চলচিত্তচঞ্চরী) are considered nonsense masterpieces equal in stature to Alice in Wonderland, and are regarded as some of the greatest treasures of Bengali literature. More than 80 years after his death, Ray remains one of the most popular of children's writers in both West Bengal and Bangladesh.
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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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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 -
Sanjib Chattopadhyay
Sanjib Chattopadhyay (Bengali: সঞ্জীব চট্ট্যোপাধ্যায়) (born February 28, 1936 in Kolkata) is a Bengali novelist and writer of short stories. His style is characterised by use of short satirical sentences mixed with very lively language.
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Childhood and education:
Sanjib Chattopadhyay spent his childhood in the hilly terrain of Chota Nagpur Plateau under the care of his father after his mother died when he was five. They relocated to Calcutta and he was admitted to Victoria Institution school which he joined at grade seven. He later went to Scottish Church College, Calcutta where he studied chemistry.
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The subjects of his fiction are mostly families living in Calcutta city. Within the confines of these homes, he challenges the moral values o -
Buddhadeb Guha
Buddhadeb Guha (Bengali: বুদ্ধদেব গুহ) is a popular Bengali fiction writer. He studied at the well-known St Xavier's College of the University of Calcutta.
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His novels and short stories are characterized by their dreamy abstractness and romantic appeal. His essays reveal the soul of a true wanderer providing some of the most beautiful renditions of travel in Bengal. His love for forests and nature provide the background for many of his novels.
A highly successful chartered accountant by profession, and an accomplished musician, Guha is very urbane in his lifestyle. He was one of the first to create characters representing easy-going, upper middle-class modern Bengali families, whom readers could identify with, and that gave him instant popular -
Alexander Raskin
Alexander Borisovich Raskin (Александр Борисович Раскин) Russian Soviet writer, satirist, screenwriter. The husband of the writer Frida Vigdorova.
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He graduated from the Literary Institute (1938). E. Petrov greatly influenced his formation as a satirist and humorist .
He lived and worked in Moscow. In the 1940s, he worked for the Krokodil magazine. Many of Ruskin's unpublished epigrams were spread orally. According to Wolfgang Kazak, “Ruskin's epigrams to contemporary writers reveal a brilliant command of the language, are distinguished by their sharpness and accuracy”.
Based on the musical "Screen Star", written by Raskin in collaboration with Maurice Slobodsky , the famous movie "Spring" was created .
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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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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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Sahir Ludhianvi
Sahir Ludhianvi was born into the wealthy family of a Muslim Syed as Abdul Hayee. His mother name was Sardar Begum. Sahir's parents had a very loose and estranged relationship. After Sahir's mother left his father when he was 13, fear and financial deprivation surrounded the formative years of this young man.
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Upon matriculation, he joined the Satish Chander Dhawan Government College For Boys, Ludhiana. He was quite popular for his ghazals and nazms in the college. In 1943, after being expelled from college, Sahir settled in Lahore. Here, he completed the writing of his first Urdu work, Talkhiyaan (Bitterness). After his work was published, he began editing four Urdu magazines, Adab-e-Lateef, Shahkaar, Prithlari, and Savera He then became a -
Selim Al Deen
সেলিম আল দীন (Selim Al Deen) একজন প্রখ্যাত বাংলাদেশী নাট্যকার ও গবেষক। আধুনিক বাংলা শিল্প সাহিত্যর ইতিহাসে ধ্রুপদী ধারার অন্যতম শ্রেষ্ঠ নাট্যকার।
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Bani Basu
Bani Basu is a Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic and poet. She was educated at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the University of Calcutta.
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She began her career as a novelist with the publication of Janmabhoomi Matribhoomi. A prolific writer, her novels have been regularly published in Desh, the premier literary journal of Bengal. Her major works include Swet Patharer Thaala (The Marble Salver), Ekushe Paa (twenty One Steps), Maitreya Jataka (published as The Birth of the Maitreya by Stree), Gandharvi, Pancham Purush (The Fifth Man, or Fifth Generation?) and Ashtam Garbha (The Eighth Pregnancy). She was awarded the Tarashankar Award for Antarghaat (Treason), and the Ananda Purashkar for Maitreya Jataka. She is also the rec -
Banaful
Banaful/Banaphool (Bengali: বনফুল) (literally meaning The Wild Flower in Bengali) is the pen name of the Bengali author, playwright and poet, Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay (Bengali: বলাইচাঁদ মুখোপাধ্যায়).
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He was born in Manihari village of Purnia district (now Katihar District), Bihar on 19 July 1899. He was the son of Satyacharan Mukhopadhyay, a practicing physician at the village and Mrinalini Devi. He was admitted to the Sahebgunge Railway school in the year 1914. Mukhopādhyāy started a hand-written magazine named "Bikash" where his writings of the first few days were published. When one of his poem was published in a well- known magazine named Malancha, he was warned by the then head-master of the school as he feared that Balāi Chānd's liter -
Kamleshwar
Kamleshwar (कमलेश्वर) was a prominent 20th-century Hindi writer, and scriptwriter for Hindi cinema and television. Among his most well- known work are the films Aandhi, Mausam, Chhoti Si Baat and Rang Birangi. He was awarded the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award for his cult Hindi novel Kitne Pakistan (translated in English as Partitions), and also the Padma Bhushan in 2005.
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Nazim Ud Daula
নাজিম উদ দৌলার জন্ম ১৯৯০ সালের ৪ নভেম্বর নানাবাড়ি কেরানীগঞ্জে। পৈত্রিক নিবাস যশোর জেলায় হলেও বেড়ে উঠেছেন ঢাকার আলো বাতাসের মাঝে। ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের মার্কেটিং বিভাগ থেকে বিবিএ ও এমবিএ শেষ করে বেশ কয়েক বছর বিজ্ঞাপনী সংস্থায় চাকরি করেছেন।বর্তমানে দেশের প্রথম সারির প্রডাকশন হাউজ আলফা আই-এ ক্রিয়েটিভ ম্যানেজার হিসেবে কর্মরত আছেন। লেখালেখির চর্চা অনেক দিনের। দীর্ঘসময় ধরে লিখছেন ব্লগ, ফেসবুক সহ বিভিন্ন অনলাইন প্লাটফর্মে। ২০১২ সালে প্রথম গল্প “কবি” প্রকাশিত হয় কালান্তর সাহিত্য সাময়িকীতে। অমর একুশে গ্রন্থমেলা ২০১৫-তে প্রকাশিত হয় তার প্রথম থ্রিলার উপন্যাস “ইনকারনেশন”। একই বছর আগস্টে প্রকাশিত হিস্টোরিক্যাল থ্রিলার “ব্লাডস্টোন” তাকে এনে দেয় বিপুল পাঠকপ্রিয়তা। এ পর্যন্ত ৬টি থ্রিলার উপন্যাস ও ৩টি গল্পগ্রন্থ লিখেছেন তিনি। সাহিত্যচর্চার পাশাপাশি চলচ্চিত্র
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Rishi Kapoor
Rishi Kapoor was one of India's most popular film stars, known for his work in Hindi cinema.
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Born into the Kapoor family, he made his debut, as an adolescent, in his father Raj Kapoor's film Mera Naam Joker (1970), for which he won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist. As an adult, his first lead role was opposite Dimple Kapadia in the teen romance Bobby (1973), which won him the Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
Kapoor is one of the most successful actors in the history of Bollywood. Between 1973 and 2000, Kapoor starred as the romantic lead in 92 films. Some of his notable films during this period include Khel Khel Mein (1975), Kabhi Kabhie (1976), Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Karz (1980), and Chandni (1989). Since the 2000s, he played -
Shahrier Khan
জনপ্রিয় কার্টুন চরিত্র বেসিক আলীর জনক বিশিষ্ট কার্টুনিস্ট শাহরিয়ার খান। কার্টুনটির যাত্রা শুরু হয় ২০০৬ সালে। জাতীয় দৈনিক পত্রিকা প্রথম আলোর উপসম্পাদকীয় পাতায় নিয়মিত প্রকাশিত হয় এই কার্টুন। শুরু থেকেই কার্টুনটি পাঠকপ্রিয়তা পেয়ে আসছে। বেসিক আলী হলো বড় ছেলে। ‘আলী গ্রুপ অব ইন্ডাস্ট্রিজ’ এর মালিক, বিশিষ্ট ঋণখেলাপী ব্যবসায়ী তালিব আলীর বড় ছেলে। আলী পরিবারের অন্যান্য সদস্যরা হলো বেসিকের মা মলি আলী, যিনি একজন গৃহিণী, ছোট বোন নেচার আলী, যিনি মেডিক্যাল কলেজের শিক্ষার্থী, আর স্কুল ছাত্র ছোট ভাই ম্যাজিক আলী। এই পরিবারকে কেন্দ্র করে এই চরিত্রগুলোর জীবনের প্রতিফলনেই বেসিক আলী কার্টুন। পরিবার, প্রেম আর বন্ধুত্বের সম্পর্কের আবর্তে চলতে থাকা এ কার্টুনে আরো দুটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ চরিত্র হলো বেসিকের অফিস সহকর্মী রিয়া হক এবং ঘনিষ্ঠ ও আত্মভোলা বন্ধু হিল্লোল। শাহরিয়ার
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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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Tarapada Roy
Tarapada Ray (Bengali: তারাপদ রায়) was a Bengali writer of poems, short stories, and essays. He is especially known for his satirical sense of humour. He was born on November 17, 1936 in Tangail, now in Bangladesh. He lived in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal till his death on August 25, 2007.
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He had his schooling in Bangladesh where he passed his matriculation from Bindubasini High English School. In 1951, he came to Calcutta to attend college. He studied Economics in Central Calcutta College (presently Maulana Azad College). For a time he taught in a school in Habra in North 24Parganas.
Apart from numerous short stories and essays (mostly satirical), he wrote many poems as well. His first collection of poems, "Tomar Pratima" was -
Ibn-e-Safi
Ibn-e-Safi (also spelled as Ibne Safi) (Urdu: ابنِ صفی) was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad (Urdu: اسرار احمد), a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. The word Ibn-e-Safi is an Arabian expression which literally means Son of Safi, where the word Safi means chaste or righteous. He wrote from the 1940s in India, and later Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947.
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His main works were the 126-book series Jasoosi Dunya (The Spy World) and the 120-book Imran Series, with a small canon of satirical works and poetry. His novels were characterized by a blend of mystery, adventure, suspense, violence, romance and comedy, achieving massive popularity across a broad readership in South Asia.
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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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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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Prachet Gupta
Prachet Gupta(alternative spelling Procheto Gupta or Prachet Gupta or Procheta Gupta; Bengali: প্রচেত গুপ্ত, porocheto gupto) born 14 October 1962) is a Bengali writer and journalist. In 2007, his work Chander Bari has been adapted into a Bengali film by director Tarun Majumdar. In 2011, director Sekhar Das made film on Gupta's story Chor-er bou ("Wife of a thief"), the film was named Necklace. One of the front runners in contemporary Begali literature, few of his stories have been translated into Hindi, Oriya and Marathi language. He is a key writer of the magazine Unish-Kuri, Sananda, Desh.
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Early Life:
Gupta spent his childhood in Bangur Avenue and studied in Bangur Boys school. He started writing from his childhood. His first story was pub -
Anisul Hoque
Anisul Hoque (Bangla: আনিসুল হক) is a Bangladeshi screenwriter, novelist, dramatist and journalist. He graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, trained as a civil engineer.
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His inspiration in journalism and writing started during his student life. After his graduation he joined to serve as a government employee but resigned only after 15 days. Instead he started working as a journalist. He attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2010. Currently, Hoque is working as an Associate Editor of a Bengali language daily, Prothom Alo.
His novel মা was translated in English as Freedom's Mother. It was published in Maithili too. He was honored with Bangla Academy Award in 2011.
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Ali Imam
Ali Imam (আলী ইমাম) is a Bangladeshi children's writer and audio-visual organizer. He written a lots of scientific story, travel story etc. for children.
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Imam has written more than 550 books, translated nearly 40. Child psychology, humanism and adventure is found in his writing. A simple style is available. Adventures, science fictions, stories related with historic events are the categories.
Ali Imam was the General Manager of Bangladesh Television and retired from the job in 2006. He is now hosting two popular TV Talk shows in private channels and more concentrating in his forthcoming books.He is Very Famous Familiar Face in Bangladesh about his Workings Experience. -
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 -
Irawati Karve
Karve received a master's degree in sociology from Mumbai University in 1928 and a doctorate in anthropology from a university in Berlin, Germany in 1930.
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Karve served for many years as the head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Deccan College, Pune (University of Pune).
She presided over the Anthropology Division of the National Science Congress held in New Delhi in 1947.
She wrote in both Marathi and English on topics pertaining to sociology and anthropology, as well as on nonscientific topics. -
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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Taradas Bandyopadhyay
Son of late legendary writer Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay of 'Pather Panchali' fame, Taradas Bandyopadhyay had his schooling at the Ramakrishna Mission School, Rahara. Graduating from Maulana Azad College with Honours in English, he went on to do his post - graduation from the Calcutta University.He joined service with the West Bengal government and rose to the position of director in the Information and Cultural Affairs department, from where he took voluntary retirement. Despite his failing health, Bandyopadhyay found time to associate with cultural and social organisations and remained the honorary vice-president of the Indian Forum of Art and Culture. Taradas leaves behind a large number of short stories and two famous novels - তারানাথ
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