Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhay | |
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| Born | 15 August 1931 Sahitya Academy Award (2008) |
Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay (15 August 1931 – 21 December 2021) was an Indian Bengali poet, translator and novelist.
Life and career
Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay was born in
British Institute of Management in Glasgow (United Kingdom). His first book of poetry, Sonar Harin (The Golden Deer) was published in 1957.[3] He was one of the four post-Modernist legendary poets of Krittibas magazine of Kolkata.[4][5][6] His first novel Sahabas was published in the Desh and at that time the novel created a lot of controversy among the readers about wife-swapping. He worked as a counsellor in the Creative Writing Programme of the Indira Gandhi National Open University.[7] In 2008 Mukhopadhyay received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his book Ghumer Borir Moto Chand.[8] An anthology of his poems was translated to English by Robert McNamara as The Cat Under the Stairs.[9][10] He died of a cardiac arrest in the early hours of 21 December 2021, at the age of 90.[9]
References
- ^ "Home". icai.org.
- ^ "ICSI - Home".
- ISBN 978-81-260-0873-5.
- ^ "'মধ্যরাতে কলকাতা শাসন' শেষ, চলে গেলেন সুনীল-শক্তির সতীর্থ শরৎকুমার মুখোপাধ্যায়". Sangbad Pratidin (in Bengali). Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "Sarat Kumar Mukherjee: শীতেই শরৎ-এর অবসান! প্রয়াত চিরসংযত ও চিরপ্রস্তুত এক কবি". Zee24Ghanta.com (in Bengali). 21 December 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ Roy, Arunava Raha (21 December 2021). "কবি শরৎকুমার মুখোপাধ্যায় প্রয়াত". Hindustantimes Bangla (in Bengali). Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay Archives". Katha Books. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "..:: SAHITYA : Akademi Awards ::." sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ a b "Eminent Bengali poet Sarat Mukherjee dies at age 90". Press Trust of India.
- ^ "Robert McNamara". Poets & Writers. 18 October 1988. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
