List of Bengalis - Writers

Writers

Further information: List of Bengali language authors and Bengali Writers : An Alphabetical List

• Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad, author, Gorokho Bijoy
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) – poet, novelist, essayist, nobel laureate
• Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976) – poet
• Abul Bashar (born 1951) – novelist, essayist
• Al Mahmud (আল মাহমুদ) – poet, novelist
• Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938) – novelist
• Pramatha Chaudhuri, editor of Sbuj patra, wrote in the era of Rabindranath Tagore.
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, philosopher, academic, educator, writer, translator, printer, publisher, entrepreneur, reformer, and philanthropist of the Bengal Renaissance period.
• Nurul Momen, (1908–1990), playwright of Nemesis (Nurul Momen play), recognized as the pioneer of modern Bengali drama, referred to as the "Father of Bangladeshi theatre"; also an educationist, playwright, director, humorist, lawyer, broadcaster, philanthropist and essayist of Bangladesh
• Sukanta Bhattacharya
• Banaphool, writer of short stories
• Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950) – novelist
• Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–1956) – novelist, short story writer
• Tarashankar Bandopadhyay (1898–1971) – novelist
• Satyajit Ray (1921–1992) – Oscar winning Film Director, he was also is well known for his contributions to Bengali literature. He created two of the most famous characters in Bengali: Feluda the sleuth, and Professor Shanku the scientist.
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894) – novelist, essayist, penned the Indian National Song of integrity Vande Mataram
• Krittibas Ojha, medieval Bengali poet,his major contribution to Bengali literature and culture was the translation of the great Indian epic Ramayana to Bengali
• Chandidas, Chandidas is perhaps most well known for his assertion Shobar upor manush shotto tahar upore nai (Above all is human, none else)
• Buddhadeb Bose (1908–1974) – poet, essayist
• Kumud Ranjan Mullick, poets of the Tagore era of Bengali literature.
• Swarnakumari Devi, first among the women writers in Bengali to gain prominence.
• Nirendranath Chakravarty (born 1924) – poet
• Haraprasad Shastri, He is most known for discovering the Charyapada, the earliest known examples of Bengali literature
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999) – scholar, essayist
• Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005) – novelist
• Shakti Chattopadhyay, poet
• Shahabuddin Nagari, Bangladeshi poet and juvenile writer
• Jibanananda Das (1899–1954) – poet
• Amit Chaudhuri, currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia, 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award for A New World
• Jhumpa Lahiri, novelist, short story writer, Pulitzer prize winner.
• Ashapurna Devi (1909–1995) – novelist, short story writer
• Mahasweta Devi (born 1926) – novelist, short story writer
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873) – poet, dramatist
• Romesh Chunder Dutt
• Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960) – poet
• Sunil Gangopadhyay (born 1934) – poet, novelist
• Amitav Ghosh, novelist, essayist
• Shankha Ghosh (born 1932) – poet, essayist
• Vidyapati, medieval poet and Sanskrit writer.
• Joy Goswami (born 1954) – poet
• Ramprasad Sen, Shakta poet of eighteenth century Bengal. His bhakti poems, known as Ramprasadi, are usually addressed to the Hindu goddess Kali and written in Bengali
• Toru Dutt, wrote in English and French
• Ekram Ali (born 1950) – poet
• Buddhadeb Guha (born 1936) – novelist
• Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912) – novelist
• Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, science fiction writer
• Bharatchandra Ray, poet and song composer known for his Mangalkavya.
• Arun Mitra (1909–2000) – poet
• Premendra Mitra (1904–1988)- poet, short story writer
• Dhan Gopal Mukerji ধান গোপাল মুখোপাধ্যায় Dhan Gopal Mukhopaddhae – author
• Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 1935) – novelist
• Subimal Basak, fiction writer, one of the Hungryalists in Bengali literature
• Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003) – poet
• Ghulam Murshid, writer, essayist and cultual historian
• Narayan Gangopadhyay, author, creator of character Tenida
• Samaresh Majumdar, writer, creator of the Animesh Trilogy
• Taslima Nasrin (born 1962) – novelist
• Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006) – poet
• Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913) – playwright, poet
• Annadashankar Roy (1905–2002) – novelist, essayist, poet
• Arundhati Roy, novelist, essayist
• Samir Roychoudhury (1933-) -poet, novelist, short story writer and philosopher
• Nares Chandra Sen-Gupta (1882–1964) – novelist, legal scholar.
• Jasim Uddin (1903–1976) – poet, novelist, essayist
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee) – author, poet
• Subhash Mukhopadhyay (poet), Bengali poet
• Bharati Mukherjee, author, educator
• Mallika Sengupta, Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata
• Humayun Ahmed (born 1948) – novelist
• Alaol (1607–1680) – poet of medieval era
• Monica Ali, (born 1954) – novelist
• Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974) – novelist, essayist
• Upamanyu Chatterjee, Author and administrator, notable for his work set in the milieu of the Indian Administrative Service, especially his novel English August
• Subodh Sarkar, poet
• Narayan Sanyal, writer of modern Bengali literature
• Sasthi Brata, Fiction writer, based in UK
• Sanjeev Chattopadhyay, Bengali fiction writer
• Aroup Chatterjee, physician, author of the book Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict
• Rimi B. Chatterjee, novelist, short story writer based in Calcutta won the SHARP deLong Prize for 2007
• Binoy Majumdar, poet, Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005,
• Srijato, won Ananda Puroskar in 2004 for his book Udaranta Sawb Joker: All Those Flying Jokers
• Tanika Gupta, playwright, appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2008
• Sake Dean Mahomed, first Indian write a book in the English language
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Her novel, The Mistress of Spices, was released as a film in 2005
• Syed Mustafa Siraj, eminent poet, novelist, short story writer Sahitya Akademi awardee
• Sayed Hasmat Jalal, Poet, Writer, Won Paschim Banga Bangla Academy Award in 2002 for his book 'Khudhashilper Desh'.
• Malay Roy Choudhury, Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s
• Arun Mitra, poet
• Prabir Ghosh, head of the Science and Rationalists’ Association of India,author.
• Moti Nandi, novelist
• Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist, educator
• Shoaib Gibran, poet, writer, academician
• Kamal Kumar Majumdar, novelist, short story writer