1. Tilottama Majumdar
Tilottama Majumdar is an accomplished writer born on January 11th, 1966, in North Bengal. Her childhood was in the tea plantations of Kalachini, where she completed her primary education. In 1985, she moved to Kolkata and attended the Scottish Church College, where she completed her undergraduate studies. Tilottama's writing career began in 1993 when her work got published in "Unmesh" magazine in Kalachini. Her elder brother served her as initial inspiration, but the writing was not just a solitary pursuit in her family, as her relatives shared her passion.
Since then, she has authored numerous novels and short stories, including 'Ri, published in Puja magazine 'Ekaler Ratakarabi.' She later published a ...
Age:
58
Gender:
Female
2. Suchitra Bhattacharya
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Date of Death:
12-05-2015
Gender:
Female
3. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was also known as Sarat Chandra Chatterjee. He was a Bengali novelist and writer. His nickname was Nyarha. He was born on September 15, 1876. His birthplace is Devanandapur, a small village in Hooghly district, British India (now in West Bengal, India). He belongs to a Bengali Brahmin family. His father was Motilal Chattopadhyay, and his mother was Bhubanmohini. He spent most of his childhood at his maternal home in Bhagalpur, Bihar, because of extreme poverty. There, he went the Durga Charan Balak Vidyalay. His education started at Pyari Pandit‘s Pathshala, an informal village school, and later, he went to the Hoogly Branch High School. In 1894, after passing the entrance exam in the second division, he...
Date of Death:
16-01-1938
Gender:
Male
4. Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth, an Indian poet and novelist , was born on June 20, 1952 in Calcutta (present Kolkata). His father Prem Nath and mother Leila Seth were famous personalities in their professional life.Prem Nath, was an executive of Bata Shoes and Leila Seth, was the first female Judge of the Delhi High Court. Vikram has two siblings, Shantum and Aradhana, who were also renowned people. Vikram did his schooling at Doon School, Dehradun. After winning a scholarship , he went to Tonbridge School of England with his uncle. Later Seth graduated in Philosophy, Politics, and Ec...
Age:
72
Gender:
Male
5. Narayan Gangopadhyay
Narayan Gangopadhyay was an Indian writer, professor, and novelist born on 4 February 1918 at Baliadingi in Dinajpur. His penname is Narayan. He finished his schooling at Dinajpur Zila School in 1933. He got accepted into Rajendra College in Faridpur but had to leave the town and drop out the following year on political grounds. He was detained as a revolutionary suspect and could not attend the university examinations. Later, he enrolled in the second year of BM College in Barisal and, as a non-collegiate candidate, passed Intermediate Arts (IA) in 1936. In 1938, he earned a distinction in his Bachelor of Arts degree from the same university. He graduated with his MA from Calcutta University in 1941, and for his exceptional performance,...
Date of Death:
08-11-1970
Gender:
Male
6. Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay was born in Labhpur, Birbhum, in the Bengal Presidency of British India on August 23, 1898. His father was Haridas Bandyopadhyay, and his mother was Sarasibala Devi. Brought up in a Bengali aspirational family, Tarasankar received early education at his birthplace before attending the very prestigious Vidyasagar College in Kolkata. Bandyopadhyay was a major Indian novelist and short story author, more famous for contributing to Bengali literature. His works have been highly acclaimed for the vibrant expression of the panoramic beauty of rural Bengal and the ordinary people living here. He wrote many novels, short stories, and essays representing the socio-economic conditions that prevailed at that time. His first...
Date of Death:
14-09-1971
Gender:
Male
7. Zahir Raihan
Zahir Raihan is a Novelist from Bangladesh. He is also known as Mohammad Zahirullah. He is well known for Stop Genocide, He was also a writer and filmmaker, and some of his films are Kacher deyal, Sangam, bahana, Bahula, Anwaar, and many more. Zahir has also written Novels and books of short stories like Trishna, Phalgun, sonar Harin, badh, janmantar, aparadh, and many more. Zahir Raihan was born in Bangladesh on 19 August 1935. His parents are Mohammad Habibullah and Syeda Sufia Khatun, and his brother's name is Shafiullah Kaiser. Zahir had married two times his first wife is Sumita Devi and his second wife is Shuchonda.
He has two sons from his first wife named Bipul Raihan and Anol Raihan and two sons from his second wife ...
Date of Death:
30-01-1972
Gender:
Male
8. Bidhayak Bhattacharya
Bidhayak Bhattacharya was a renowned Indian novelist, playwright, and actor whose major contributions were in the Bengali language. At the time of birth, he was named Bagalaranjan. He was born on 7th February 1907 in Ziaganj in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal under the British Raj. His father was Hariharan Bhattacharya. It was the Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore who gave him the new name ‘Bidhayak’ in 1937. He cleared the entrance exam of Raja Bijoy Singh Vidyamandir of Ziaganj. Later, he came to Calcutta in 1929. He joined as a journalist in the popular daily Amrita Bazar Patrika.
He also participated in theatre plays and rose to fame after the rel...
Date of Death:
15-11-1986
Gender:
Male
9. N.H. Apte
Narayan Hari Apte is a well-known Marathi novelist and writer. He is known by the name Nanasaheb Apte. He knows multiple languages like Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Nepali, and English. His birthdate is 11 July 1889. His birthplace is the village of Samdoli in Sangli district of Maharashtra. He completed high school studies at New English School, Satara. In 1904, he left his home and joined Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Abhinav Bharat Society for India's freedom movement.
In Jaipur, he has taught in the school run by freedom fighter Arjun Lal Sethi. In 1913, he returned to Satara and started translating old Marathi documents in Modi script to standard Marathi and English ...
Date of Death:
14-11-1971
Gender:
Male
10. Amiya Bhushan Majumdar
Amiya Bhushan Majumdar was a highly acclaimed Bengali novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and playwright. He was born on 22nd March 1918 in Cooch, Behar district, which is now part of Bangladesh. He did his Bachelor of arts in English literature from Victoria College (now Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College) in Cooch, Behar. He began his professional career as a journalist and worked as a sub-editor for Ananda Bazar Patrika, a prominent Bengali daily, in 1941. As a child, he was known for his love for books and literature. He was an avid reader and spent hours reading books from the local library. His interest in writing and journalism also began at a young age. He was known as the ‘Writer’s Writer’ and is considere...
Date of Death:
08-07-2001
Gender:
Male
Date of Death:
08-07-2001
11. Nihar Ranjan Gupta
Nihar Ranjan Gupta, also known by the pen name Banbhatta, was a renowned Bengali novelist and dermatologist. He was born on 6th June 1911 in Narail, British India. He was born in a Kabiraj family to parents Satya Ranjan Gupta and Labangalata Devi. His family migrated to Calcutta after the partition in 1947. He had an elder sister who succumbed to a scorpion sting. Grieved by his sister’s death, Nihar decided to pursue medical science to serve the sick. He studied at Carmichael Medical College. He also served in the Second World War as an army doctor. After the war, he moved to United Kingdom to specialize in dermatology.
During his stay in England, Gupta met Agatha C...
Date of Death:
20-02-1986
Gender:
Male
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