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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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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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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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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Shahidul Jahir was one of the most important contemporary writers in Bangladesh. He became interested in magic realism after reading Marquez's works. He was known to some -
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 -
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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Obayed Haq
ওবায়েদ হকের জন্ম ১৯৮৬ সালে। পড়াশোনা করেছেন চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে। থাকেন কুমিল্লায়।
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প্রকাশিত বইসমূহ-
উপন্যাস-
তেইল্যাচোরা (২০১৪)
নীল পাহাড় (২০১৫)
জলেশ্বরী (২০১৬)
কাঙালসংঘ (২০২১)
আড়কাঠি (২০২৪)
জল নেই পাথর (২০২৪)
উন্মাদ আশ্রম (২০২৫)
গল্প সংকলন-
একটি শাড়ি ও কামরাঙা বোমা (২০১৪)
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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 -
Avik Sarkar
অভীক সরকারের জন্ম পয়লা জুন, উনিশশো উনআশি সালে। বেড়ে ওঠা প্রাচীন শহর হাওড়ার অলিগলিতে। বাবা ক্ষুদ্র ব্যবসায়ী ছিলেন, মা স্কুল শিক্ষিকা। রয়েছে স্নাতক ও স্নাতকোত্তর ডিগ্রি। পেশায় সেলসম্যান, কর্মসূত্রে ঘুরেছেন পূর্ব-ভারতের প্রায় সব শহর ও গ্রাম। জীবনের বিভিন্ন পর্যায়ে বাসা বেঁধেছেন হায়দ্রাবাদ, পাটনা, মুম্বাই ইত্যাদি বিভিন্ন শহরে। শখের বই ব্যবসায়ী ও প্রকাশক। লেখালেখির শুরু আন্তর্জালে ও বিভিন্ন ব্লগে। প্রকাশিত বইগুলো হল মার্কেট ভিজিট, তিতিরপাখি ও প্রিন্সেস (সহলেখক অনুষ্টুপ শেঠ), এবং ইনকুইজিশন, খোঁড়া ভৈরবীর মাঠ, চক্রসম্বরের পুঁথি, ইত্যাদি। বিবাহিত। কন্যা সন্তানের পিতা। ভালোবাসেন ইলিশ, ইস্টবেঙ্গল, ইয়ারবন্ধু এবং ইতিহাস।
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Chinmoy Guha
Chinmoy Guha (born in September 1958 in Kolkata, India) is a professor and former Head of the department of English at the University of Calcutta, a Bengali essayist and translator, and a scholar of French language and literature. He has served as the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University and Director of Publications, Embassy of France, New Delhi. Earlier he taught English at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College in Kolkata for more than two decades, and French at the Alliance Française and the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture for eleven and five years respectively.
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He has won the Lila Ray award of the Government of West Bengal in 2008 and the Derozio bicentenary award in 2010. He has been awarded knighthoods by the ministries of Ed -
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 -
Shankha Ghosh
Shankha Ghosh (Bengali: শঙ্খ ঘোষ; b. 1932) is a Bengali Indian poet and critic. Ghosh was born on February 6, 1932 at Chandpur of what is now Bangladesh. Shankha Ghosh is regarded one of the most prolific writers in Bengali. He got his undergraduate degree in Arts in Bengali language from the Presidency College, Kolkata in 1951 and subsequently his Master's degree from the University of Calcutta. He taught at many educational institutes, including Bangabasi College, City College (all affiliated to the University of Calcutta) and at Jadavpur University, all in Kolkata. He retired from Jadavpur University in 1992. He joined the Iowa Writer's Workshop, USA in 1960's. He has also taught Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies
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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 -
Srijato
Srijato Bandopadhyay (born 21 December 1975 in Kolkata), is an eminent poet of the Bengali younger generation. He won the Ananda Puroskar in 2004 for his book Udanta Sawb Joker: All Those Flying Jokers. He has also attended a writer's workshop at the University of Iowa.
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His notable works include Chotoder Chiriyakhana: The menagerie for kids (2005), Katiushar golpo: Tales untold (2006), Borshamongol : The monsoon epic (2006), Okalboisakhi: Storms unprecedent (2007), Likhte hole bhodrobhabe lekho: Write politely, if you have to (2002), Ses Chithi: Last Letter (1999), Bombay to Goa (2007), Coffer namti Irish : Irish Coffee (2008), Onubhob korechi tai bolchi : Revealing the feeling (1998).
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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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Joy Goswami
ভারতীয় কবি জয় গোস্বামী (ইংরেজি: Joy Goswami নভেম্বর ১০, ১৯৫৪) বাংলা ভাষার আধুনিক কবি এবং উত্তর-জীবনানন্দ পর্বের অন্যতম জনপ্রিয় বাঙালি কবি হিসাবে পরিগণিত।
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জয় গোস্বামীর জন্ম কলকাতা শহরে। ছোটবেলায় তাঁর পরিবার রানাঘাটে চলে আসে, তখন থেকেই স্থায়ী নিবাস সেখানে। পিতা রাজনীতি করতেন, তাঁর হাতেই জয় গোস্বামীর কবিতা লেখার হাতে খড়ি। ছয় বছর বয়সে তাঁর পিতার মৃত্যু হয়। মা শিক্ষকতা করে তাঁকে লালন পালন করেন।
জয় গোস্বামীর প্রথাগত লেখা পড়ার পরিসমাপ্তি ঘটে একাদশ শ্রেণীতে থাকার সময়। সাময়িকী ও সাহিত্য পত্রিকায় তিনি কবিতা লিখতেন। এভাবে অনেক দিন কাটার পর দেশ পত্রিকায় তাঁর কবিতা ছাপা হয়। এর পরপরই তাঁর খ্যাতি ছড়িয়ে পড়ে। কিছুদিন পরে তাঁর প্রথম কাব্য সংকলন ক্রিসমাস ও শীতের সনেটগুচ্ছ প্রকাশিত হয়। ১৯৮৯ সালে তিনি ঘুমিয়েছ, ঝাউপাতা কাব্যগ্রন্থের জন্য আন