Alokeranjan Dasgupta

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Alokeranjan Dasgupta (born October 6, 1933 in Calcutta ) is an Indian poet and literary scholar. He is considered one of the most important poets of the Bengali language . In addition to numerous volumes of poetry, he has published literary studies and translated works by German-speaking authors into Bengali and works by Bengali poets into German.

Life

Alokeranjan Dasgupta attended the school founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan . He then studied at St. Xavier's College and Presidency College in Calcutta and at the University of Calcutta . From 1957 he taught comparative literature and Bengali studies at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. In 1971 he received a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and then taught as a visiting professor at the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University until 1994 .

Literary work

Alokeranjan Dasgupta became known through the volume of poetry Joubanbaul ( Wandering Singers of the Young), which appeared in 1959. More than 30 other volumes of poetry written in Bengali have followed to date . Dasgupta has had a decisive influence on modern Bengali poetry. In his poems he combines the earthly and the transcendent, the personal and the political, the prose and the poetic. With original new word creations, surprising rhymes and semantic connections he opened up new possibilities of expression for the Bengali language and enriched contemporary Indian literature considerably.

Publications in German

  • 1994 The King and the Bard. Literary encounters with India. Weber & Zucht, Kassel.
  • 1999 The mystical saw. Poems from Bengali by Hans Harder. Bonner Siva Series, Bonn.
  • 2008 Goethe and Tagore. A comparative study. Draupadi, Heidelberg.
  • 2011 My Tagore. An approach to the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. Draupadi, Heidelberg.
  • 2013 At the place of writing. Poems. Translated from Bengali by Margit Urhahn. Draupadi, Heidelberg, ISBN 9783937603759 .

Awards

  • 1985 Goethe Medal from the Goethe Institute, Munich.
  • 1985 Ananda Award, Calcutta.
  • 1987 Tagore Prize of the German-Indian Society, Stuttgart.
  • 1991 Shiromoni Award, Calcutta.
  • 1992 Sahitya Akademi Award , New Delhi.
  • 2004 Tagore Literature Prize of the West Bengal Government, Calcutta.
  • 2005 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman , India.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Kämpchen (ed.): Indian Literature of the Present, Munich 2006, p. 437.
  2. ^ Franz Schneider (ed.): Ivory grapes. Festschrift for Alokeranjan Dasgupta, Heidelberg 2003, p. 161.
  3. ↑ Martin Kämpchen (ed.): Indian Literature of the Present, Munich 2006, p. 437.
  4. ↑ Martin Kämpchen (ed.): Indian Literature of the Present, Munich 2006, p. 437.
  5. ↑ Martin Kämpchen (ed.): Indian Literature of the Present, Munich 2006, p. 437.
  6. ^ Franz Schneider (ed.): Ivory grapes. Festschrift for Alokeranjan Dasgupta, Heidelberg 2003, p. 161.
  7. ↑ Martin Kämpchen (ed.): Indian Literature of the Present, Munich 2006, p. 257.
  8. ↑ Martin Kämpchen (ed.): Indian Literature of the Present, Munich 2006, p. 264.
  9. ↑ Martin Kämchen (ed.): Indian Literature of the Present, Munich 2006, p. 265.
  10. ↑ Martin Kämchen (ed.): Indian Literature of the Present, Munich 2006, p. 265.
  11. ↑ Martin Kämpchen (ed.): Indian Literature of the Present, Munich 2006, p. 437.
personal data
SURNAME Dasgupta, Alokeranjan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian poet and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Calcutta