Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay ( Bengali : সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় , Sunīl Gaṅgopādhyāẏ ; born September 7, 1934 in the Faridpur district , today Bangladesh ; † October 23, 2012 in Calcutta , India ) was a Bengali writer .
Life
He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1954 and later a master's degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta . For many years he was associated with the publishing house of the Anandabazar Patrika and was also Vice President of the Sahitya Akademi .
As an author, he has published numerous books in various literary genres, but his preference was poetry . Gangopadhyay was editor of the poetry magazine Krittibas .
Gangopadhyay is also known for his prose . Some of his works have also been made into films; Aranyer Din Ratri and Pratidwandi by Satyajit Ray and Dekha and Moner Manush by Gautam Ghosh . His historical novel Sei Somoy received the Indian Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985 and was still a bestseller many years after its publication, as were the novels Pratham Alo and Porb-Paschim .
Other prizes were the Bankim Puraskar in 1982 and the Ananda Puraskar twice .
Gangopadhyay wrote travelogues, children's books, short stories and essays under the pseudonyms Nil Lohit, Sanatan Pathak and Nil Upadhyay.
Web links
- Literature by and about Sunil Gangopadhyay in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Website of Krittibas Patrika
- "এই একটু ভালোবাসার কথা" (Ei ekṭu bhālobāsār kathā) Original poem with translation
- Eight poems in Bengali
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gangopadhyay, Sunil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়, সুনীল (Bengali); Gaṅgopādhyāẏ, Sunīl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bengali writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Faridpur District , now Bangladesh |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 2012 |
| Place of death | Calcutta |