List of Bengali language authors (alphabetical)

This article provides an alphabetical list of Bengali language authors. For a chronological list, see List of Bengali language authors.

Pre-partition Bengal

A

*Abdul Hakim (poet), Abdul Hakim (1620–1690)
*Afzal Ali (poet), Afzal Ali (16th-century)
*Alaol (1606–1680)
*Akkhoykumar Boral (1860–1919)

B

*Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94)
*Bharatchandra Ray (1712–60)
*Begum Rokeya (1880–1932)

D

*Daulat Qazi (1600–1638)
*Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan (16th-century)
*Dinesh Chandra Sen (1866–1939)
*Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913)

E

*Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940)
*Eyakub Ali Chowdhury (1888–1940)

G

*Girish Chandra Ghosh (1844–1912)
*Girish Chandra Sen (1835/36-1910)
*Gobindachandra Das (1885–1918)

H

*Heyat Mahmud (1693–1760)

I

*Ismail Hossain Siraji (1880–1931)
*Ishwar Chandra Gupta (1812–59)
*Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–91)

K

*Krittibas Ojha (1443-15??)

M

*Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–73)
*Mohammad Lutfur Rahman (1889–1936)
*Muhammad Muqim (18th-century)

N

*Nabinchandra Sen (1847–1909)
*Nur Qutb Alam (died 1416)

P

*Pramatha Chowdhury (1868–1946)
*Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay (1873-1932)

R

*Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
*Rahimunnessa (1763–1800)
*Rajanikanta Sen (1865 - 1910)

S

*Sarasibala Basu (1886–1929)
*Satyendranath Dutta (1882–1922)
*Satyendranath Tagore (1842–1923)
*Shah Muhammad Saghir (14th-century)
*Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938)
*Sheikh Fazlul Karim (1882–1936)
*Sukumar Ray (1887–1923)
*Swami Nigamananda (1880–1935)
*Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)
* Swarnakumari Devi, (1855–1932)
*Syed Sultan (1550–1648)

T

*Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919)

U

*Upendrakishore Ray (1863–1915)

Z

*Zainuddin (poet), Zainuddin (15th-century)

West Bengal

A

*Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951)
*Abul Bashar (b. 1951)
*Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–76)
*Amiya Bhushan Majumdar (1918–2001)
*Amiya Chakravarty (1901–86)
*Anil Ghorai (b. 1957)
*Annadashankar Roy (1904–2002)
*Arun Mitra (1909–2000)
*Ashapoorna Devi (1909–95)
*Ashutosh Mukherjee (writer), Ashutosh Mukherjee (1920–89)
*Atin Bandyopadhyay (1934–2019)

B

*Bonoful, Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay (1899–1979)
*Bani Basu (b. 1939)
*Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950)
*Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (1894–1987)
*Bijon Bhattacharya (1917–78)
*Bimal Kar (1921-2002)
*Bimal Mitra (1912–91)
*Binoy Majumdar (1934–2006)
*Bishnu Dey (1909–82)
*Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–74)
*Buddhadeb Guha (b. 1936)

C

D

*Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1877–1957)
*Dibyendu Palit (b. 1939)
*Dinesh Das (1913–85)

E

*Ekram Ali (b. 1950)

H

*Hemendrakumar Roy (1888–1963)

J

*Jagadish Gupta (1886–1957)
*Jatindramohan Bagchi (1878–1948)
*Jatindranath Sengupta (1880–1954)
*Jibanananda Das (1899–1954)
*Joy Goswami (b. 1954)

K

*Kalidas Roy (1889–1975)
*Kamal Kumar Majumdar (1914–79)
*Kamini Roy (1864–1933)
*Kumud Ranjan Mullick (1883–1970)

L

*Leela Majumdar (1908–2007)

M

*Mahasweta Devi (b. 1926)
*Malay Roy Choudhury (b. 1939)
*Mani Shankar Mukherjee (b. 1933)
*Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–56)
*Mohit Chattopadhyay (b. 1934)
*Moniruddin Khan (b. 1974)
*Moti Nandi (1931–2010)
*Mohitolal Majumdar (1888–1952)
* Maniklal Sinha (1916-1994)

N

*Nabanita Dev Sen (b. 1938)
*Nabarun Bhattacharya(1948-2014)
*Narayan Debnath (b. 1926)
*Narayan Gangopadhyay (1918–70)
*Narayan Sanyal (1924–2005)
*Narendranath Mitra (1916–75)
*Nihar Ranjan Gupta (1911–86)
*Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999)
*Nirupama Devi (1883-1951)

P

*Prabir Ghosh (b. 1945)
*Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921–1990)
*Premendra Mitra (1904–88)
*Priyanath Mukhopadhyay (1855–1947)
*Protiva Bose (1915–2006)
*Purusottom Kumar Debnath
(1955 -till date)

R

*Rajsekhar Bose (1880–1960)

S

*Sachin Sengupta (1891–1961)
*Samaresh Majumdar (b. 1944)
*Samir Roychoudhury (b. 1933)
*Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005)
*Sanjib Chattopadhyay (b. 1936)
*Satyajit Ray (1921–92)
*Shamik Ghosh (b. 1983)
*Shankha Ghosh (1932–2021)
*Shakti Chattopadhyay (1933–95)
*Shaktipada Rajguru (b. 1922)
*Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (1899–1970)
*Shibram Chakraborty (1902–80)
*Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (b. 1935)
*Subhas Mukhopadhyay (poet), Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003)
*Subodh Ghosh (1909–80)
*Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960)
* Sudhir Chakravarti (1934-2020)
*Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926–47)
*Sukumar Sen (linguist), Sukumar Sen (1900–92)
*Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012)
*Syed Kawsar Jamal (b. 1950)
*Syed Mustafa Siraj (b. 1930)

T

*Tarapada Roy (b. 1936)
*Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya (1898–1971)

U

*Utpal Dutt (1929–93)

Bangladesh

A

*Abdullah Abu Sayeed (b. 1939)
*Abdullah-Al-Muti (1930–1998)
*Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (b. 1934)
*Abdul Mannan Syed (b. 1943)
*Abdul Kadir (poet), Abdul Kadir (1906–84)
*Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1869–1953)
*Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1929–1996)
*Abu Ishaque (1926–2003)
*Abu Rushd
*Abubakar Siddique (b. 1936)
*Abujafar Shamsuddin (1911–89)
*Abul Kashem (1920–1991)
*Abul Mansur Ahmed (1898–1979)
*Ahmed Sharif (1921–1999)
*Ahmed Sofa (1943–2001)
*Ahsan Habib (1917–1985)
*Ahsan Habib (cartoonist)
*Akhteruzzaman Elias (1943–97)
*Akbar Hussain (1917–1980)
*Alauddin Al-Azad (b. 1932)
*Al Mahmud
*Ali Imam
*Anwar Pasha (1928–1971)
*Anisul Hoque (b. 1965)
*Aroj Ali Matubbar
*Asad Chowdhury
*A. T. M. Shamsuddin

B

*Baby Halder (b. 1973)
*Bande Ali Mia (1906–82)
*Bashir Al Helal (b. 1936)
*Benojir Ahmed (1903–1983)
*Bipradash Barua (b. 1940)

D

*Datta, Haripada (b. 1947)
*Dewan Mohammad Azraf (1908–1999)
*Dilara Hashem (b. 1936)

E

*Ekhlasuddin Ahmed (b. 1940)

F

*Farrukh Ahmed

G

*Golam Mostofa (poet), Golam Mostofa (1897–1964)
*Nirmalendu Goon

H

*Hasan Azizul Huq (b. 1939)
*Hasnat Abdul Hye (b. 1939)
*Humayun Ahmed (b. 1948)
*Humayun Azad (1947–2004)

I

*Imdadul Haq Milon (b. 1955)

J

*Jagadish Gupta (1886–1957)
*Jahanara Imam (1929–1994)
*Jasimuddin
*Jatin Sarker (b. 1936)

K

*Kazi Abdul Odud (1894–1970)
*Kazi Nazrul Islam (1898–1976)
*Khondakar Ashraf Hossain

M

*Mahbubul Alam (author), Mahbubul Alam (1898–1981)
*Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury (b. 1927)
*Mir Mosharraf Hossain
*Mohammad Barkatullah (author), Mohammad Barkatullah (1898–1974)
*Mohammad Nurul Huda (b. 1949)
*Mohammad Rafiq (Bangladesh poet), Mohammad Rafiq (b. 1943)
*Moinul Ahsan Saber (b. 1958)
*Mokbula Manzoor (b. 1938)
*Motaher Hussain Chowdhury (1903–1956)
*Muhammad Mohar Ali (1932–2007)
*M. R. Akhtar Mukul (1929–2004)
*Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (1926–1971)
*Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (b. 1948)
*Muhammad Habibur Rahman (b. 1935)
*Muhammad Shahidullah (1885–1969)
*Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (b. 1952)
*Munier Chowdhury (1925–1971)
*Muntasir Mamun

N

*Nurul Momen (Sobriquet:- Natyaguru) (1908–1990)
*Nasreen Jahan (b. 1964)
*Nilima Ibrahim (1921–2002)

Q

*Qazi Anwar Hussain
*Qazi Imdadul Haq
*Qazi Motahar Hossain (1897–1981)
*Qazi Nazrul Islam

R

*Rabeya Khatun (b. 1935)
*Rafiq Azad
*Rahat Khan (b. 1940)
*Rakib Hasan
*Rashid Askari (b.1965)
*Rashid Haider
*Rashid Karim (b. 1925)
*Razia Khan
*Rezauddin Stalin
*Rizia Rahman(b. 1939)
*Romena Afaz (1926 - 2003)
*Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (1956–1992)

S

*Salimullah Khan
*Sardar Fazlul Karim
*Sarder Jayenuddin (1918–1986)
*Selim Al-Deen (1949–2008)
*Selina Hossain (b. 1947)
*Sezan Mahmud (b. 1967)("NC 1988")
*Satyen Sen, Sen, Satyen (1907–81)
*Shah Muhammad Sagir (?)
*Shahadat Hussain (1893–1953)
*Shahed Ali (b. 1925)
*Shahid Akhand (b. 1935)
*Shahidul Zahir (1953–2008)
*Shahidullah Kaiser (1926–1971)
*Shahriyar Kabir
*Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926–97)
*Shamsunnahar Mahmud (1908–1964)
*Shamsur Rahman (poet), Shamsur Rahman
*Shaukat Osman (1917–98)
*Sirajul Islam Chowdhury
*Sufia Kamal (1911–99)
*Syed Ali Ahsan
*Syed Abul Maksud
*Syed Emdad Ali (1880–1956)
*Syed Manzoorul Islam
*Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–74)
*Syed Shamsul Haque (1934)
*Syed Waliullah (1922–71)

T

*Tahmima Anam (b. 1975)
*Taslima Nasrin (b. 1962)

W

* Wasi Ahmed (b. 1954)

Z

*Zahir Raihan (1935–1972)

References

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