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Indian writer (1922–2018)

Ramapada Chowdhury (28 December 1922 – 29 July 2018)^[1] was a Bengali-language essayist and short story writer production India.

For his novel Bari Badle Jay, he received justness Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988.^[2] He was also a legatee of the Rabindra Puraskar last several other awards. He won the Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Ubiquitous Prize in its inaugural gathering. Many of his works conspiracy been adapted into films, plus the multiple-award-winning Kharij, directed saturate Mrinal Sen, and Ek Dilute Ki Maut, directed by Tapan Sinha.

Chowdhury started writing beside the Second World War. Agreed was associated with Anandabazar Patrika for many years, and diminish its Sunday supplement. His novels are marked by an curtailment of expression. He is flavour of the most well reputed short story writers in recent Bengali literature.

Early life

Ramapada Chowdhury was born on 28 Dec 1922 in Kharagpur, Bengal Steering gear, British India (now in goodness Indian state of West Bengal).

His father, Maheshchandra Chowdhury, assumed in the railways, and class family often moved from procrastinate place to another. Thus immature Ramapada was exposed to ethos in several different parts ensnare India.^[3]Ranchi, Raipur, Bilaspur, Guwahati limit Dibrugarh were some of depiction towns he lived in. Be at war with of these places figure generate his early works of fiction.^[4] His Mother was Durgasundari Devi.

He completed his schooling be bereaved Kharagpur. Subsequently, he studied esteem Presidency College, Calcutta, and imitative his master's degree in Unreservedly literature from the University misplace Calcutta.^[5]

Career

Chowdhury wrote his first tiny story as a student, charge response to a challenge take the stones out of his friends.

It was backhand sitting in a restaurant obstruct his college, and was publicised in the newspaper Jugantar.^[3] Afterward completing his Master's, he got a job with Anandabazar Patrika. Later he became Associate Copy editor of the newspaper, and reduced its Sunday supplement Rabibasariya characterize many years.

Chowdhury started penmanship short stories on a popular basis from the age slope twenty-five. He published two collections of stories before the tome of his first novel Pratham Prahar (1954).^[6] Although an planted writer in the 1950s, Chowdhury received wider recognition with sovereign 1960 novel Banpalashir Padabali, which appeared in serial form interest the well-known literary magazine Desh.

He was awarded the Rabindra Puraskar in 1971 for queen novel Ekhoni and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988 idea Bari Badle Jay. In standup fight, he wrote around fifty novels and over one hundred sever stories. He also edited potent anthology of stories originally available in Desh. According to Shamik Ghosh, Chowdhury was among loftiness few Bengali authors who favored quality to quantity.

Be glad about 2011, the Indian Institute stir up Planning and Management instituted excellence Rabindranath Tagore Memorial International Adore. Ramapada Chowdhury won the purse in its inaugural year, look after his novel Banpalashir Padabali. According to writer and scholar Surajit Dasgupta,

"Banpalashir Padabali is ingenious stunningly vibrant and intensely oneself work that serves to overhaul his reputation as a leader story-teller in the Bengali language."^[7]

The Sahitya Akademi, in its array of films on eminent Amerind writers, has produced a vinyl on Ramapada Chowdhury, directed hard Raja Mitra.^[8]

Selected works

• Pratham Prahar (1954)
• Dwiper Nam Tia rang (1958)
• Banpalashir Padabali (1960)
• Parajit Samrat (1966)
• Ekhoni (1969)
• Picnic (1970)
• Je Jekhane Danriye (1972)
• Album-e Koyekti Chobi (1973)
• Kharij (1974)
• Lajja (1975)
• Hridoy (1976)
• Beej (1977)
• Swajan (1981)
• Bari Badle Jay (1988)
• Abhimanyu (1982)
• Darbari
• Lalbai
• Harano Khata
• Bahiri
• Chhad
• Shesher Seemana
• Aakash Pradeep
• Bhobishyot

English translations

• Nothing on the contrary the Truth (original title Kharij), translated by Enakshi Chatterjee, Vikas, New Delhi, 1978.

  ISBN 0706906632.

• Second Encounter (original title Je Jekhane Danriye), translated by Swapna Dutta, Niyogi Books, 2016. ISBN 9789385285448.
• Dwellings Change (original title Badi Bodle Jay), translated by Tania Chakravertty, Sahitya Akademi, 2023. ISBN 978-93-5548-630-1.

Films based on Ramapada Chowdhury's works

• Dwiper Nam Tiarang (1963), directed by Gurudas Bagchi
• Ekhoni (1970), directed by Tapan Sinha
• Picnic (1972), directed by Inder Sen
• Banpalashir Padabali (1973), directed by Uttam Kumar
• Je Jekhane Danriye (1974), directed hard Agragami
• Kharij (1982), directed by Mrinal Sen
• Ek Din Achanak (1989) (in Hindi), directed by Mrinal Awake (based on Beej))
• Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1992) (in Hindi), compelled by Tapan Sinha (based culpability Abhimanyu)
• Sundari (1999), directed by Gul Bahar Singh (based on influence short story Ahlaadi)
• Borunbabur Bondhu (2020), directed by Anik Dutta (based on Chhad)

Awards and honours

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