Amar Mitra (born 30 August 1951) is an eminent writer in

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living in

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. His elder brother is notable actor

Manoj Mitra Manoj Mitra (22 December 1938 – 12 November 2024) was an Indian theatre, film and television actor, director, and playwright. Early life Mitra was born on 22 December 1938 in Dhulihar village of Satkhira District, Khulna division. Initiall ...

Early life

After partition of India in 1947, the Mitra family migrated from Satkhira in Khulna and came to

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. His father, Ashok Kumar Mitra, was a government worker and opted to live in

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after partition. He was born in the year 1951 in Basirhat. He was a student of

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. His father used to work in the Department of Land Reforms under

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Literary career

Mitra is a veteran Bengali novelist and short story writer. He also edited number of books. He is writing for over five decades which includes 30 published novels, number of short-story collections as well as few books for children. Mitra participated in the First forum of Asian Countries' writers held in Nur Sultan city in

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in September 2019 and awarded O. Henry Award for his short story, The Old man of Kusumpur. He was awarded with

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Award for his novel Dhrubaputra () in 2006. He has also received the

Bankim Puraskar Bankim Puraskar (, Bankim Memorial Award) is the highest award given by the Government of West Bengal for contribution to Bengali fiction. The award was instituted in 1975 in memory of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, a famous Bengali novelist of the ...

from

for his novel, ''Aswacharit'' () in 2001,

Mitra received Mitra O Ghosh award in the year 2010, Sharat Puroskar in the year 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitra, Amar 1951 births Living people Bengali writers Writers from West Bengal Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali 21st-century Indian novelists 21st-century Indian male writers 21st-century Indian short story writers People from North 24 Parganas district