Protiva Bose (also spelled Pratibha Basu; Bangla: প্রতিভা বসু) was one of the most prolific and widely read Bengali writers of novels, short stories, and essays. She has written 200 books, all of whic…
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 Eng…
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.
Tapan Raychaudhuri (8 May 1926– 26 November 2014) was an Indian historian specialising in British Indian history, Indian economic history and the History of Bengal.
Her writing focuses on contemporary social issues. She is a perceptive observer of the changing urban milieu and her writing closely examines the contemporary Bengali middle class. Crisis in human rel…
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 Calcu…
Nabaneeta Dev Sen is an award-winning Indian poet, novelist and academic. Sen has published more than 80 books in Bengali: poetry, novels, short stories, plays, literary criticism, personal essays, tr…
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 …
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, dramati…
ইমতিয়ার শামীমের জন্ম ১৩ ফেব্রুয়ারি ১৯৬৫ সালে, সিরাজগঞ্জ জেলার উল্লাপাড়া উপজেলায়। রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে সমাজবিজ্ঞানে স্নাতক (সম্মান) ও স্নাতকোত্তর সম্পন্ন করেন। আজকের কাগজে সাংবাদিকতার মাধ্যমে কর…
八木沢 里志 (Satoshi Yagisawa) was born in Chiba, Japan, in 1977. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, his debut novel, was originally published in 2009 and won the Chiyoda Literature Prize.
Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay, also known as T. N. Mukharji, was a remarkable person in British India. He worked as a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta, preserving India's cultural heritage. Beyon…
স্বপ্নময় চক্রবর্তীর জন্ম ২৪ আগস্ট, ১৯৫১ সালে উত্তর কলকাতায়। রসায়নে বিএসসি (সম্মান), বাংলায় এমএ, সাংবাদিকতায় ডিপ্লোমা করেছেন। লেখকজীবন শুরু করেন সত্তর দশকে। প্রথম দিকে কবিতা লিখলেও থিতু হয়েছেন গল্…
Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin, where she graduated from Trinity College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The White Review, The Stinging Fly, and the Winter Page…
Syed Shamsul Haq was one of the most prolific Bangladeshi poets, lyricists, and writers, born in Kurigram on 27 December 1935 to Syed Siddique Husain, a homeopathic physician, and Halima Khatun. Marri…
