Atin Bandyopadhyay or Atin Banerjee (1934–2019) was an Indian writer of

Bengali literature Bengali literature ( bn, বাংলা সাহিত্য, Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language and which covers Old Bengali, Middle- Bengali and Modern Bengali with the changes through the passage of time ...

Early life

He was born in 1934 in a Rarhi Kulin Brahmin family from Sammandi, Bikrampur,

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...

. He spent his childhood in a joint family set-up in the then East Bengal of undivided India and studied in Sonar Gaon Panam School. Following the Partition, he migrated to India. He earned his undergraduate degree in commerce in 1956 and subsequently earned a teacher's training degree, all from the

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...

. He took various jobs, including; as a sailor, truck-cleaner and primary school teacher. Also he became headmaster of a senior basic school. He became the head master of Satui Rajendra Narayan High School which is situated near the Chowrigacha Railway Station in the

Murshidabad Murshidabad fa, مرشد آباد (, or ) is a historical city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located on the eastern bank of the Bhagirathi River, a distributary of the Ganges. It forms part of the Murshidabad district. During ...

district. Bandyopadhyay settled permanently in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

in 1986. Here also he took on various jobs like factory manager, publication advisor and lastly journalist.

Career as a writer

Bandyopadhyay's first story was published in the magazine ''Abasar'' of Berhampore. He later penned many works, but, his masterpiece is considered to be a four-part tetralogy on the Partition; ''Nilkantha Pakhir Khonje'',"Manusher Gharbari" ''Aloukik Jalajan'' and ''Ishwarer Bagan''. Another famous writer of Bengal,

Syed Mustafa Siraj Syed Mustafa Siraj (14 October 1930 – 4 September 2012) was an eminent Indian writer. In 1994, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel '' Mythical Man'' (''Aleek Manush''), considered his most lauded work. In 2005, his short story ...

has compared ''Nilkantha Pakhir Khonje'', with Greek tragedies and also found it tuned with the core spirit of

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay () (12 September 1894 – 1 November 1950) was an Indian writer in the Bengali language. His best known works are the autobiographical novel, ''Pather Panchali'' (''Song of the Little Road''), ''Aparajito (Undefeate ...

's ''Pather Panchali''.Ishwarer Bagan by Atin Bandyopadhyay, 1st combined edition, Karuna Prakashani, Kolkata, Oct. 2000

Selected works

Works for younger audience

*Uronto Torobari (Ananda Pub) *Gini Rohosyo (Ananda Pub) *Binnir Khoi Lal Batasa (Ananda Pub) *Dosti Kishore Uponyas (Ananda Pub) *Paloker Tupi(Punascha) *Neel Timi(Karuna Prakashoni) *Fentur Sada Ghora(Karuna Prakashoni)

Dosti Kishore Uponyas

*Fentur Sada Ghora *Rajar Bari *Binnir Khoi Lal Batasa *Aronyorajye Mandela *Neel Timi *Uronto Torobari *Hirer Cheyeo Dami *Ekti joler rekha o Ora teen jon *Gini Rohosyo *Dustu Hititi

References

Writers from Kolkata

External links

Library of Congress profile
at The South Asian Literary Recordings Project, Library of Congress; New Delhi Office, India
Bengali Books Online profile

Atin Bandyopadhyay
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