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 ...
awarded annually by the
ABP Group
ABP Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian media conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was established in 1922.
History
The company in recent years did mass layoffs at various times.
Current assets Newspapers
* ''Anandabazar Patrika'' � ...
to writers using
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 ...
, usually from
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the four ...
,
India
India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...
.
History
The award can be traced to a comment by Annada Shankar Ray ruing the absence of literary awards in Bengal. It was started on 20 April 1958 and has been given in the same month since. Initially, there were two awards, in memory of Prafulla Kumar Sarkar and
Suresh Chandra Majumdar
Suresh Chandra Majumdar was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament, representing West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as a member of the Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress ( ...
, the founders of ''
Anandabazar Patrika
'' Anandabazar Patrika'' ( Bengali: আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা, ) is an Indian Bengali-language daily newspaper owned by the ABP Group. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1 million ...
''. Another award was started in 1984 in memory of
Ashok Kumar Sarkar
Ashok Kumar Sarkar (7 October 1912 – 17 February 1983) was the editor-in-chief and owner of ''Anandabazar Patrika'' and ABP Group from 1958 to 1983 after death of Prafulla Kumar Sarkar the inaugural editor of Anandabazar Patrika.
Early lif ...
to commemorate the golden jubilee of '' Desh''. All three awards were merged in 2000.
Awardees
*1958 –
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (24 October 1894 – 30 July 1987) was an Indian Bengali language
Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of Sou ...
Sukumar Sen Sukumar Sen may refer to:
* Sukumar Sen (civil servant) (1899–1963), India's first Chief Election Commissioner
*Sukumar Sen (linguist)
Sukumar Sen (16 January 1900 – 3 March 1992) was an Indian linguist and historian of the Bengali literatur ...
*1967 –
Bimal Kar
Bimal Kar (19 September 1921 — 26 August 2003) was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Bengali. He received the 1975 Sahitya Akademi Award presented by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, for his novel ''Asamay''.
...
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs o ...
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (7 September 1934 – 23 October 2012) was an Indian poet, historian and novelist in the Bengali language based in the city of Kolkata. He is a former Sheriff of Calcutta. Gangopadhyay obtained his m ...
Syed Mustafa Siraj
Syed Mustafa Siraj (14 October 1930 – 4 September 2012) was an eminent Indian writer. In 1994, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel '' Mythical Man'' (''Aleek Manush''), considered his most lauded work. In 2005, his short stor ...
*1980 - Probodh Kumar Sanyal
*1981 –
Sanjib Chattopadhyay
Sanjib Chattopadhyay ( bn, সঞ্জীব চট্ট্যোপাধ্যায়; born 24 october 1936 in Kolkata, India) is an Indian Bengali novelist and writer of short stories. His style is characterized by use of short satiri ...
Sukumar Sen Sukumar Sen may refer to:
* Sukumar Sen (civil servant) (1899–1963), India's first Chief Election Commissioner
*Sukumar Sen (linguist)
Sukumar Sen (16 January 1900 – 3 March 1992) was an Indian linguist and historian of the Bengali literatur ...
,
Sagarmoy Ghosh
Sagarmoy Ghosh (22 June 1912 – 19 February 1999) was an author and renowned editor of Bengali literary journal '' Desh''.
Early life
Ghosh was born in Chandipur village, Comilla, in British India, His father Kalimohan Ghosh and elder brother ...
,
Bimal Mitra
Bimal Mitra (18 March 1912 – 2 December 1991) was an Indian writer in Bengali. Bimal Mitra was equally adept in writing in Bengali as well as in Hindi, and wrote more than one hundred novels and short stories. Many of Bimal Mitra's novels ha ...
(Ashok Kumar Sarkar Memorial)
*1985 –
Alokranjan Dasgupta
Alokeranjan Dasgupta (6 October 1933 – 17 November 2020) was a Bengali poet who was the author of over 20 books of poetry. He translated Bengali and Santal poetry and plays into English and German, and also translated literature from German an ...
*1986 –
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Ketaki Kushari Dyson (née Ketaki Kushari; born 26 June 1940) is a Bengali-born poet, novelist, playwright, translator and critic, diaspora writer and scholar. Born and educated in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, she has lived most of her adult life n ...
– ''Rabindranath o Victoria Ocampor Sandhane'' (historical novel) (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)
*1988 –
Abul Bashar
Abul Bashar ( bn, আবুল বাশার) is a popular Bengali writer from the state of West Bengal in India. He was born in 1951 in Teka in Lalbagh, Murshidabad district. Bashar is pro Trinamool so called intellectual.
Select biblio ...
*1989 –
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (7 September 1934 – 23 October 2012) was an Indian poet, historian and novelist in the Bengali language based in the city of Kolkata. He is a former Sheriff of Calcutta. Gangopadhyay obtained his m ...
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri CBE (23 November 1897 – 1 August 1999) was an Indian writer.
In 1990, Oxford University awarded Chaudhuri, by then a long-time resident of the city of Oxford, an Honorary Degree in Letters. In 1992, he was made an hono ...
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin (born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh ...
– ''Nirbachito Column'' (articles)
*1993 –
Bangla Academy
The Bangla Academy ( bn, বাংলা একাডেমি, ) is an autonomous institution funded by the Government of Bangladesh, Bangladesh government to foster the Bengali language, literature and culture, to develop and implement nationa ...
(refused)
*.......
Clinton B. Seely
Clinton B. Seely ( bn, ক্লিনটন বি. সিলি) (born June 21, 1941) is an American academic and translator, and a scholar of Bengali language and literature. He has translated the works of Ramprasad Sen and Michael Madhusudan ...
Naren Biswas Naren is a given name in various cultures.
In Inner Mongolia, Naren is a Chinese transcription of the Mongolian word ''naran'' (), meaning "sun".
People with this name include:
* Naren Tamhane (1931–2002), Indian cricketer
*Naren Ray (1940–200 ...
Dr. Nazrul Islam
Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, w ...
- ''Bakul'' (novel)
*1996 –
Akhtaruzzaman Elias
Akhteruzzaman Elias (12 February 1943 – 4 January 1997) (Bengali: আখতারুজ্জামান ইলিয়াস) was a Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer. Despite writing only two novels, critics place Elias "in the pant ...
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Ketaki Kushari Dyson (née Ketaki Kushari; born 26 June 1940) is a Bengali-born poet, novelist, playwright, translator and critic, diaspora writer and scholar. Born and educated in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, she has lived most of her adult life n ...
& Sushobhan Adhikari – ''Ranger Rabindranath'' (on Tagore's colour vision) (Suresh Chandra Majumdar Memorial)
*1998 – Jay Goswami – ''Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo'' (novel in verse)
*1999 – Mandakranta Sen – ''Hriday Abadhya Meye'' (poetry)
*2000 –
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin (born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh ...
Sudhir Chakraborty
Sudhir Chakravarti (19 September 1934 – 15 December 2020) was a Bengali educationist and essayist. He made a vast contribution in Bengal's folk culture development and research. Chakravarti had completely changed the style of colonial prose wi ...
– ''Baul Fakir Katha'' (folk culture)
*2003 –
Tilottama Majumdar
Tilottoma Mojumdar is an Indian Bangali novelist, short story writer, poet, lyricist, and essayist.http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/author-tilottoma-denied-entry/ The Indian Express. 4 March 2012, 6:26 AM. In the ''Cities'' secti ...
Mihir Sengupta
Mihir Sengupta (1946 – 17 January 2022) was an Indian writer of Bengali literature.
He was best known for his 2005 autobiography ''Bishaad Brikkho'' ('Tree of Sorrow'). It describes the atrocities of post-partition East Pakistan as seen by th ...
Agunpakhi
''Agunpakhi'' (English: The Phoenix) is a novel by Bangladeshi writer Hasan Azizul Huq. First published in 2006, the novel was awarded Prothom Alo book of the year prize in 2007 and Ananda Purashkar in 2008.
Plot summary
''Agunpakhi'' is set in ...
'' (novel)
*2009 –
Ranajit Guha
Ranajit Guha (born 23 May 1923, in Siddhakati, Backergunje) is a historian of the Indian Subcontinent who has been vastly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies. He migrated fro ...
– ''Kabir Naam O Sarbanaam''
*2010 -
Sunanda Sikdar
Sunanda Sikdar (born 1951) is an Indian writer and memoirist of Bengali origin. She was born after the partition of India in 1947, in the village of Digpait in East Pakistan, (now Bangladesh) from where her family migrated to Kolkata in India in t ...
Pinaki Thakur
Pinaki Thakur (21 April 1959 – 3 January 2019) was a Bengali poet
Biography
Thakur was born in 1959 at Bansberia, Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. He studied Engineering but was passionate in Bengali poetry from student lif ...
- ''Chumbaner Kshata'' (poetry)
*2013 –
Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay
Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay (born 8 March 1956) is a Bengali people, Bengali writer from India. He has written novels and short stories for both adults and children.
Life
Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay was born in Calcutta
His father was Ramangamohan Mukhopa ...
– ''Dhanapatir Singhalyatra'' (novel)
*2014 –
Arindam Chakrabarti
Arindam Chakrabarti is, currently, a visiting professor of philosophy at Ashoka University, India. He is, also, a professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University, where he has been since 2018. Prior to moving to Stony Brook, Chakrabarti taught ...
Swapnamoy Chakraborty
Swapnamoy Chakraborty (born 24 August 1951) is a Bengali novelist and essayist.
Career
Chakraborty was born in Kolkata. He worked in the Land Department under the Government of West Bengal and Akashvani Kolkata as an executive director. He starte ...
- ''Holde Golap''
*2016 -
Sudhir Dutta Sudhir is an Indian masculine given name. The Sanskrit word ' means "very wise", "resolute".
Notable people with the name include:
* Sudhir (Pakistani actor) (1922–1997), Pakistani actor
*Sudhir (Hindi actor) (1944–2014), Bollywood actor
...
- ''Tabu Moi o Srestho Kobitaguccho''
*2017 - Anisuzzaman - ''Bipula Prithibi'' (The Vast World)
*2018 -
Santosh Rana
Santosh Rana (1942 – 29 June 2019) was an Indian politician. In the 1960s, he was a prominent figure in the armed struggle of the Naxalites led by Charu Majumdar. Rana received Ananda Puraskar for his book ''Rajnitir Ek Jibon'' in 2018.
A ...
- ''Rajniti Ek Jibon''
*2019 —
Nalini Bera
Nalini (Devanagari: नलिनी) is a female gender Indian given name, which means "lotus", "goddess Gayatri","mother of Vedas", "sweet nectar", "Amrit", Feminine "lily" in Sanskrit.''Baby Names''"Nalini" Retrieved on 9 January 2016. The name ...
- ''Subarnarenu Subarnarekha''
See also
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Rabindra Puraskar
The Rabindra Puraskar (also Rabindra Smriti Puraskar) is the highest honorary literary award given in the Indian state of West Bengal. This award is named after the famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore and is administered by the Government of W ...
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Bankim Puraskar
Bankim Puraskar ( bn, বঙ্কিম পুরস্কার, 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 Chandr ...
Bangla Academy Award
The Bangla Academy Literary Award ( bn, বাংলা একাডেমি সাহিত্য পুরস্কার; ''Bangla Academy Shahitya Puroshkar''), is given by the Bangla Academy of Bangladesh in recognition of creative genius i ...