Sukumar Ray

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Sukumar Ray

Sukumar Ray ( Bengali : সুকুমার রায় , Sukumār Rāẏ ; born October 30, 1887 in Kolkata ; † September 10, 1923 ibid) was a Bengali Indian children's author, illustrator and editor. He is best known as a poet of Bengali nonsense verses.

biography

Sukumar Ray was born to the children's author Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri . He grew up in close contact with the educated elite of the late Bengali Renaissance , his father was friends with Rabindranath Thakur , Jagadish Chandra Bose and Prafulla Chandra Roy . At the age of eight he wrote his first poem Nadi ; his father published his second Tick, Tick, Tock in the children's magazine Mukul in 1896 . Upendrakishore started a business as a block maker (drawing pads etc.) under the company M / s U. Ray & Sons , where Sukumar and his brother Subinay learned the trade.

In 1906, Sukumar Ray graduated with honors in physics and chemistry from Presidency College in Kolkata . During his student days he dealt with acting and humorous poetry. He went to England in 1911, where he learned photography and printing techniques and was one of the first Indians to study photography and lithography. From this work he also worked as an illustrator. While in England, his father expanded the printing and publishing business and started editing the children's magazine Sandesh . A few months after Sukumar's return from England in 1914, his father died and he took over the business and the publication of the magazine with his younger brother.

He published several volumes of nonsense poems and nursery rhymes in Bengali with his own illustrations, which are difficult to translate into other languages ​​without losing their surreal imagery. His last work Abol Tabol , published a few days before his death, is his best known and is still one of the most popular works of Bengali children's literature today.

Sukumar Ray died of a severe leishmaniasis infection that had tied him to a wheelchair for several years. In 1987, on the occasion of his 100th birthday, his only son, the film director Satyajit Ray , made a documentary about him .

Works

  • Abol tabol
  • Pagla Dashu
  • Khai-Khai
  • Heshoram Hushiyarer Diary
  • HaJaBaRaLa
  • Jhalapala O Onanyo Natok
  • Lakkhan Shoktishel
  • Chalachittachanchari
  • Shabdakalpadrum

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personal data
SURNAME Ray, Sukumar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES রায়, সুকুমার (Bengali); Rāẏ, Sukumār (transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bengali Indian children's author, illustrator and editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolkata
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1923
Place of death Kolkata