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Bengali poet (1924–2018)
Nirendranath Chakraborty
Born (1924-10-19 ) 19 October 1924Died 25 December 2018(2018-12-25) (aged 94) Occupation(s) Writer, poet, author Awards
Sahitya Academy Award (1974),
Banga Bibhushan (2017)
Nirendranath Chakravarty (19 October 1924 – 25 December 2018) was a contemporary
Indian
Bengali
poet ,
Translator ,
Novelist .
[1]
He lived in Bangur Avenue,
Kolkata .
Biography
Nirendranath Chakraborty receiving Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award 2012 (Kolkata, 2014)
He was born in Faridpur district of undivided Bengal in 1924. After graduating from the University of Calcutta, he started journalism in the daily "Raiyah". He won the
Sahitya Academy Award in 1974 for the book of poems Ulanga Raja (The Naked King). In 2007, the
University of Calcutta awarded him an honorary Doctor of Literature degree.
[2] Chakravarty also wrote few detective novels of
Bhaduri Moshai .
[3]
Notable works
Poetry anthology
Some of his poetry anthologies are:
Neel Nirjan
Nirokto Karabi
Andhokar Baranda
Prothom Nayok
Somoy baro kom
Jabotiyo Valobasi
Ghumiye porar aage
Shrestho Kobita
Kobita Samagro 1
Kobita Samagro 2
Juvenile literature
Saada Bagh
Bibir Chora
Baaro Maser Chora
Pitri Purush
Amalkanti(baje poem)
Some of his popular poems are-
Amalkanti Roddur Hotay Cheyachilo
Kolkatar Jisu
Ulanga Raja
He also translated
Hergé 's
The Adventures of Tintin in Bengali.
Death
Chakravarty died on 25 December 2018 at 12:25 pm following a
heart attack . He was 94 years old, and at the time, was suffering from breathing problem in the last few months.
[4]
Awards
References
1968–1980
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1968)
D. R. Bendre ,
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ,
Sumitranandan Pant ,
C. Rajagopalachari (1969)
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer ,
Firaq Gorakhpuri ,
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar ,
Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1970)
Kaka Kalelkar ,
Gopinath Kaviraj ,
Gurbaksh Singh ,
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1971)
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar ,
Mangharam Udharam Malkani ,
Nilmoni Phukan ,
Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi ,
Sukumar Sen ,
V. R. Trivedi (1973)
T. P. Meenakshisundaram (1975)
Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande ,
Jainendra Kumar ,
Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu' ,
V. Raghavan ,
Mahadevi Varma (1979)
1981–2000
Umashankar Joshi ,
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar ,
K. Shivaram Karanth (1985)
Mulk Raj Anand ,
Vinayaka Krishna Gokak ,
Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi ,
Amritlal Nagar ,
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai ,
Annada Shankar Ray (1989)
Nagarjun ,
Balamani Amma ,
Ashapurna Devi ,
Qurratulain Hyder ,
Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte ,
Kanhu Charan Mohanty ,
P. T. Narasimhachar ,
R. K. Narayan ,
Harbhajan Singh (1994)
Jayakanthan ,
Vinda Karandikar ,
Vidya Niwas Mishra ,
Subhash Mukhopadhyay ,
Raja Rao ,
Sachidananda Routray ,
Krishna Sobti (1996)
Syed Abdul Malik ,
K. S. Narasimhaswamy ,
Gunturu Seshendra Sarma ,
Rajendra Shah ,
Ram Vilas Sharma ,
N. Khelchandra Singh (1999)
Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar ,
Rehman Rahi (2000)
2001–present
Ram Nath Shastri (2001)
Kaifi Azmi ,
Govind Chandra Pande ,
Nilamani Phookan ,
Bhisham Sahni (2002)
Kovilan ,
U. R. Ananthamurthy ,
Vijaydan Detha ,
Bhadriraju Krishnamurti ,
Amrita Pritam ,
Shankha Ghosh ,
Nirmal Verma (2004)
Manoj Das ,
Vishnu Prabhakar (2006)
Anita Desai ,
Kartar Singh Duggal ,
Ravindra Kelekar (2007)
Gopi Chand Narang ,
Ramakanta Rath (2009)
Chandranath Mishra Amar ,
Kunwar Narayan ,
Bholabhai Patel ,
Kedarnath Singh ,
Khushwant Singh (2010)
Raghuveer Chaudhari ,
Arjan Hasid ,
Sitakant Mahapatra ,
M. T. Vasudevan Nair ,
Asit Rai ,
Satya Vrat Shastri (2013)
Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa ,
C. Narayana Reddy (2014)
Nirendranath Chakravarty ,
Gurdial Singh (2016)
Honorary Fellows Premchand Fellowship Ananda Coomaraswamy Fellowship
International National Other