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 …
Such volumes as Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906) collect short stories, noted for their often surprising endings, of American writer William Sydney Porter, who used the pe…
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables…
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…
Bimal Kar (Bengali: বিমল কর) was an eminent Bengali writer and novelist. He received 1975 Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali, by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, for his novel Asama…
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…
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…
Syed Waliullah was born on 15 August 1922 at Sholashahar in Chittagong. After completing his Bachelor’s from Ananda Mohan College in Mymensingh, he enrolled at Calcutta University but did not complete…
William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
রমাপদ চৌধুরীর জন্ম ২৮ ডিসেম্বর ১৯২২। কৈশোর কেটেছে রেল-শহর খড়গপুরে। শিক্ষা: প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ। ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে এম.এ.। গল্প-উপন্যাস ছাড়াও রয়েছে একাধিক প্রবন্ধের বই, স্মৃতিকথা এবং একটি অত্যাশ্চর্য ছড়…
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 n…
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.
Shahidul Jahir (also spelled Zahir) was a Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer. He was reputed for extraordinary prose style and diciton and considered a genuine founder of post-modern fiction …
Mahmudul Haque (Bangla: মাহমুদুল হক) was a contemporary novelist in Bangla literature. He was born in Barasat in West Bengal. His family moved to Dhaka after the partition in 1947. His novels deal wit…
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…
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…
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…
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 (…
মাশুদুল হকের জন্ম ও বেড়ে ওঠা ঢাকায়। এক দশকের বেশি সময় ধরে লিখছেন থ্রিলার, সায়েন্সফিকশন ও শিশু-কিশোর সাহিত্য, প্রকাশিত হয়েছে নিয়মিত ভাবে বাংলাদেশ ও ভারত থেকে।
