Shibabrata Barman (Bengali: শিবব্রত বর্মন) is a Bangladeshi author, screenwriter, translator, and journalist. He is known for Bengali novel ''Baniyalulu'', ''Mriterao Kotha Bole'' which is later adopted as web series

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and screenwriting for film, and television including

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webseries, Unoloukik, and Film based on his story ''Suraiya'' was officially selected in ''Asian Project Market (APM)'' 2023 at 28th

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, Produire Au Sud

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Lab 2023, Tasveer Film Market 2024. Barman has authored several books, written screenplays, and worked as a journalist.

Early life and education

Shibabrata Barman was born in 1973 at

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. He completed his master's degree in political science from the

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, Bangladesh, in 2001. He did his bachelor at the faculty of fine arts in

University of Dhaka The University of Dhaka (), also known as Dhaka University (DU), is a public university, public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Established in 1921, it is the oldest active university in the country. The University of Dhaka w ...

Career

Writing

Shibabrata Barman has authored fiction books, ''Banialulu'' (2019), a collection of science-fiction short stories, ''Mriterao Kotha Bole'' (2021) ''Suraiya'' (2022), an anthology of short stories, and ''Shodh'' (2025), released in Ekushey Book Fair 2025. In 2008, he translated Yan Martel’s novel ''Life of Pi'' into Bengali. Barman also writes satire for ''Earki''.

Journalism

Barman has had an extensive career in journalism, working for several prominent Bangladeshi media outlets. He began his career at

Bhorer Kagoj ''Bhorer Kagoj'' ( ''Bhorer Kagoj'' "Dawn's Paper") is a major Bengali-language daily newspaper, published from Dhaka, Bangladesh. The newspaper is published in both print and online formats. History ''Bhorer Kagoj'' began publications on 15 ...

in 1996, where he served as a Senior Sub-Editor until 2003. Later, he joined The Independent TV as Chief News Editor, a position he held from 2011 to 2015. From 2016 to 2019, he worked at

Prothom Alo ''Prothom Alo'' () is a Bengali language, Bengali-language daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka. It is one of the largest circulated newspaper in Bangladesh. According to the National Media Survey of 2018, conducted by Kantar MRB ...

as the News Planning Editor. Following this, he joined

The Business Standard ''The Business Standard'' is a Bangladeshi daily newspaper published in English and Bengali. The newspaper was founded by The Horizon Media and Publication Ltd and is based in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The newspaper provides detailed an ...

in 2019 as a Feature Editor, where he remained until 2020.

Works

Awards and recognition

* Digital Media Award, Channel-I, Bangladesh (2022) for ''Unoloukik''. * Chorki Award (2022) for Best Actor (Male) in ''Unoloukik''. * Asian Creative Awards (2023) National Winner for ''Café Desire''.

References

External links

Shibabrata Barman at Goodreads

Shibabrata Barman at IMDb
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