Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay (born 8 March 1956) is a

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writer from

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. He has written novels and short stories for both adults and children.

Life

Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay was born in

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. His father was Ramangamohan Mukhopadhyay and mother Kanaklata Mukhopadhyay. He graduated from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandir (a residential college) at Belur before taking a Masters in

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from The

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. He did his Ph.D from

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. Mukhopadhyay started his career as Regional Secretary, East India, of Sahitya Akademi. Formerly he was Convener of the Bengali Advisory Board of the Sahitya Akademi. He was also President of the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad. He has retired as the Director of the Publishing Department, Visva-Bharati.Visva-Bharati

He is associated with a number of Bengali Little Magazines.

Works

In a Sahitya Akademi Book-release programme 2001-2002

His first collection of 14 short stories entitled "Madale Natun Bol" (The New Beats on the Drum) published from

in 1984. His first novel "Charane Prantare" (At the Grazing Ground, at the Horizon) was published from Calcutta in 1993.

Novel

Short story collection

Travelogue

Book of essays

Compiled and edited

Juvenile literature

Awards

* Somenchandra Award of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi (2000) * Galpamela Puraskar (2004) * Katha Award (New Delhi, 2005) * Bankimchandra Smriti Puraskar of the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of West Bengal (2006) * Saratchandra Smriti Puraskar (Bhagalpur, 2007) * Sis Puraskar (2008) *

Gajendra Kumar Mitra Gajendra Kumar Mitra (Bengali language, Bengali: গজেন্দ্র কুমার মিত্র) (11 November 1908 – 16 October 1994) was a Bengali language, Bengali writer. In the year 1959, he won the Sahitya Akademi Award in Beng ...

Birth Centenary Award 2009 Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay kolkata

Ananda Puraskar The Ananda Puraskar () is an award for Bengali literature awarded annually by the ABP Group to writers using Bengali language, Bengali, usually from West Bengal, India. History The award can be traced to a comment by Annada Shankar Ray ruing the ...

of the Ananda Bazar Patrika and Desh (2013) * D.L.Ray Award (2014) * Kusumanjali Award (New Delhi, 2014) * Krititwa Samagra Puraskar of Bharatiya Bhasha Parisad (2016) * Karmayogi Nanigopal Chakraborty Smriti Sahitya Puraskar (2023)

References

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