George Bernard Shaw stands as one of the most prolific and influential intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a man whose literary output was matched only by his fervent c…
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…
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 inf…
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges…
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, p…
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bengali: বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) ('Chattopadhyay' in the original Bengali; 'Chatterjee' as spelt by the British) was a Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalis…
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…
Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary a…
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…
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 …
राहुल सांकृत्यायन जिन्हें महापंडित की उपाधि दी जाती है हिन्दी के एक प्रमुख साहित्यकार थे। वे एक प्रतिष्ठित बहुभाषाविद् थे और बीसवीं सदी के पूर्वार्ध में उन्होंने यात्रा वृतांत/यात्रा साहित्य तथा विश्व…
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.
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, late…
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 Beng…
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 approac…
Shawkat Ali (Bangla: শওকত আলী) is a major contemporary writer of Bangladesh, and has been contributing to Bangla fiction for the last four decades. Both in novels and short stories he has established …
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…
আনোয়ার পাশা একজন বাংলাদেশী কবি, কথা সাহিত্যিক, এবং শিক্ষাবিদ। তাঁর পিতার নাম হাজী মকরম আলী আর মা সাবেরা খাতুন। তিনি মুর্শিদাবাদ জেলার বহরমপুর মোহকুমার রাঙ্গামাটি চাঁদপাড়া ইউনিয়নের অন্তর্গত ডবকাই গ্…
যাযাবর ছদ্মনামের আড়ালে থাকা মানুষটি বিনয় মুখোপাধ্যায় (Binoy Mukhopadyay, ? - ১৯৮৩)। তাঁর লিখিত বইগুলো হচ্ছে 'দৃষ্টিপাত', 'জনান্তিক', 'ঝিলম নদীর তীরে', 'লঘুকরণ', 'হ্রস্ব ও দীর্ঘ', 'যখন বৃষ্টি নামল'। এছ…
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…