Swapnamoy Chakraborty (born 24 August 1951) is a

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novelist and essayist.

Career

Chakraborty was born in

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. He worked in the Land Department under the

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and Akashvani Kolkata as an executive director. He started his writing career with short stories. His first short story was published in 1972 in Amrita magazine. Chakraborty's first book ''Bhumi Sutra'' was published in 1982. His book ''Abantinagar'' won the

Bankim Puraskar Bankim Puraskar ( bn, বঙ্কিম পুরস্কার, Bankim Memorial Award) is the highest award given by the Government of West Bengal for contribution to Bengali fiction. The award was instituted in 1975 in memory of Bankim Chandra ...

in 2005. He received

Ananda Puraskar The Ananda Puraskar () is an award for Bengali literature awarded annually by the ABP Group to writers using Bengali, usually from West Bengal, India. History The award can be traced to a comment by Annada Shankar Ray ruing the absence of litera ...

in 2012 for ''Holde Golap'', a research based novel on

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communities. In February 2019, Chakraborty alleged that

Kaushik Ganguly Kaushik Ganguly (born 4 August 2012) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor in Bengali cinema. Multiple National Award winner Actor-Director, Kaushik Ganguly is known for making films that explore various aspects sexuality, like ' ...

’s film

Nagarkirtan ''Nagarkirtan'' (নগরকীর্তন) is a 2017 Indian Bengali film written and directed by Kaushik Ganguly. The film stars Riddhi Sen as Parimal, a trans woman from rural Bengal, and Ritwick Chakraborty as Madhu, a flute player from the ...

was plagiarised from his novel titled Holde Golap but later he revised his views on the film.

References

1951 births Living people Bengali-language writers Indian columnists Writers from Kolkata Recipients of the Ananda Purashkar Indian male short story writers 20th-century Indian short story writers 20th-century Indian novelists {{India-writer-stub