Subhro Bandopadhyay (pen name of Subhransu Banerjee) is an Indian poet who writes in

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

. He won

Sahitya Akademi The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...

Yuva Puraskar The Yuva Puraskar (Hindi: युवा पुरस्कार), also known as Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar, is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on young writers of outsta ...

, (awarded by Govt. of India to young writers of the country) 2013 for his poetry book ''Bouddho Lekhomala O Onnyano Shraman''.

Biography

Subhro was born 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 ...

, 1978. He studied Biological Sciences then shifted to Spanish language for his keen interest in literature. He is a young

polyglot Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingualism, monolingual speakers in the World population, world's pop ...

writer who speaks four languages including Spanish and English. He has authored 5 poetry books, a novel and a biography on

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, all of them in Bengali. His third collection of poems was short listed for the Sanskriti Awards for Literature in 2006. He has received the Ruy de Clavijo scholarship from Casa Asia, Govt. of Spain in 2007. His fourth collection of poems ''chitabaagh shahor'' which is written at a residency programme with I Beca Internacional

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for poetic creation (awarded jointly by Ministry of Culture, Govt. of Spain and Fundación Antonio Machado in 2008) in Spain the book is published under the title La ciudad leopardo, He has translated several contemporary Spanish authors into Bengali and made the maiden collection of contemporary Bengali poetry in Spanish which is published in Spain and in Chile. In 2014 the translation of his ''Bouddho Lekhomala O Onnyano Shraman'' is published in Spain under the title Poemas metálicos. He along with four editors, edits the magazine ''

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bandopadhyay, Subhro Living people Bengali writers Bengali poets Poets from West Bengal Indian male poets 20th-century Indian poets Year of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar Writers from Kolkata