Gajendra Kumar Mitra (

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

: গজেন্দ্র কুমার মিত্র) (11 November 1908 – 16 October 1994) was a

writer. In the year 1959, he won the

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

in Bengali for his novel, Kolkatar Kāchhei (A Stone's Throw from Kolkata).

Life

Gajendra Kumar Mitra was born on 11 November 1908. He was a versatile writer. He wrote many novels, short stories, plays, essays and poems. Mitra also translated a few English novels into Bengali, such as Dickens's ''A Tale of Two Cities''. He used to write with his left hand. His genuine love and concern for

Bengali literature Bengali literature ( bn, বাংলা সাহিত্য, Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language and which covers Old Bengali, Middle- Bengali and Modern Bengali with the changes through the passage of time ...

inspired him to co-found the famous Mitra and Ghosh Publishers. Mitra was childless. He died on 16 October 1994 in Calcutta (now Kolkata).

Mitra & Ghosh Publishers

Mr Mitra along with his friend Sumathanath Ghosh established Mitra & Ghosh Publishers on March 9, 1934.

Novels

* ''Kanta Prem'' * ''Pānchajanya'' * ''Rai Jāgo Rai Jāgo'' * ''Kolkatar Kāchei'' (Translated as ''A Stone's Throw from Kolkata'') * ''Paush Phāguner Pālā'' * ''Upakanthe'' * ''Bahnibanyā'' * ''Rātrir Tapashyā'' * Pashaner Khuda

References

*''Aupanyāsik Gajendrakumar Mitra: Jīban O Sāhitya'' (Kolkata: Pustaka Bipaṇi, 2006.) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mitra, Gajendrakumar Bengali writers Bengali-language writers Recipients of the Rabindra Puraskar Recipients of the Ananda Purashkar 1908 births 1994 deaths Writers from Kolkata