Nirendranath Chakravarty
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Born | (1924-10-19)19 October 1924 Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Bangladesh) |
Died | 25 December 2018(2018-12-25) (aged 94) Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
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.He translated Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin in Bengali.
Biography
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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 borho 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
- Sahitya Akademi Award in 1974
- Ananda Purashkar in 1974
- The University of Calcutta awarded him an honorary Doctor of Literature degree.
References
- ^ Bose, Amalendu. Contemporary Bengali Literature. Academic Publishers. p. 12. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ^ "Every generation owes their love quotes to these 7 legendary Bengali poets". zeenews.india.com. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
- ^ Prabirendra Chattopadhyay. QuijjhoTika: A Quiz Book. Sristisukh Prokashan LLP. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-63415-360-7. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
- ^ "প্রয়াত কবি নীরেন্দ্রনাথ চক্রবর্তী". Zee 24 Ghanta (in Bengali). 25 December 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
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- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Léopold Sédar Senghor (1974)
- Edward C. Dimock, Jr., Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr., Kamil Zvelebil, Ji Xianlin (1996)
- Vassilis Vitsaxis, Eugene Chelyshev (2002)
- Ronald E. Asher (2007)
- Abhimanyu Unnuth (2013)
- Intizar Hussain (2005), Kishwar Naheed (2016)
- Senake Bandaranayake, Chie Nakane, Azad N. Shamatov (1996)
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