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Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay was born in Rahuta Village of Chabbishparagana, West Bengal in 1847. He was a self educated man.He was a school teacher in Daroka (Birbhum),Ukhra (Raniganj) and in Sahajadpur (Sirajganj)and afterward, a police sub-inspector in Cuttack (1868). He met Sir William Hunter in this period. He joined as a clerk in “Bengal Gazetteer Office” [...]
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Hasan Azizul Huq 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 taught in the department of philosophy of the Rajshahi University for a long time and retired as a professor of philosophy. He now lives [...]
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Satinath Vaduri was born in 1906. Jagari, Dhonrai Charita Manas, Chitrogupter Khata are his well known novels. The first novel of Satinath Vaduri “Jagari” is a tale of one night, behind the bars. This novel creates a sensation as soon as it had been published, and the readers were concerned about this new powerful writer [...]
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Selina Hossain was born on June 14, 1947 at Rajshahi, in what is now Bangladesh. Her works are a moving account of the contemporary social and political crises and conflicts as well as the recurrent cycles of the life of the struggling masses. Her publication includes about 21 novels, 4 collections of short stories, 4 [...]
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Banaphul was born in 1899 in Manihari or Purnia Bihar. Bolai Chand Mukhopadhyay was his real name. He got his medical degree from Patna University and practiced medicine throughout his life. Banaphul wrote a lot including thousands of poems, 586 short stories, 60 novels, 5 dramas, a number of one-act plays, an autobiography, and numerous [...]
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Syed Waliullah Syed Waliullah was born in Chittagong in 1922. He Completed his intermediate education from Dhaka Intermediate College, got his BA from Kolkata University. Syed Waliullah is often considered the pioneer of existential analysis of the characters psyche in the literature of Bangladesh. He is popular for his… Continue reading
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Syed Ismail Hossain Sirajiwas born on 13th July 1880 in Sirajganj. He added the suffix Shiraji in honour of his home region. His family was so poor to bear his educational expenses. In 1886 he was admitted in Pathshala. Later on he was admitted in Bonuarilal High school. He wanted a Muslim revolution and went [...]
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Shibram Chakraborty Shibram Chakraborty was born in 13 December 1903 at his maternal uncle’s house in Kolkata, the capital of British India. His father’s name was Shibprashad Chakrabarty.His initial foray into literature was as a poet. The most famous and recurring characters in his stories are the brothers Harshabardhan and Gobardhan and… Continue reading | 2 [...]
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Shyamal Gangopadhyay was born in 1933 in Gaibandha District, Bangladesh. He is known for his outstanding powerful narratives in depicting the people breathing in every strata of the society. Seldom Bengali literature could reach the heights Shyamal could offer nonchalantly. He lived life of many sorts—a welder in a steel factory, a farmer, a small [...]
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Nasreen Jahan Nasreen Jahan was born in 1966 in Mymensingh. Most of his early life she spent here. She started her literary life by writing rhymes and short stories in the children’s page of daily newspaper. She is married to poet Ashraf Ahmed and they have a daughter. Nasreen Jahan has… Continue reading | 2 Comments
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