Nabarun Bhattacharya

Nabarun Bhattacharya
Born(1948-06-23)23 June 1948
Berhampur, West Bengal, India
Died31 July 2014(2014-07-31) (aged 66)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
OccupationWriter
LanguageBengali
Alma materCalcutta University
Notable works
  • Herbert (1994)
  • Andho Biral
  • Fyataru
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award (1993)
SpousePranati Bhattacharya
Parents
Relatives

Nabarun Bhattacharya (23 June 1948 – 31 July 2014) was an Indian writer who wrote in the Bengali language. He was born at Berhampur, West Bengal. He was the only child of actor and playwright Bijon Bhattacharya and writer and activist Mahashweta Devi.[1] His maternal grandfather was a writer from the Kallol era Manish Ghatak. Visionary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak was his great uncle.

His novel, Herbert (1993), was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award[2] and adapted into a film of the same name by Suman Mukhopadhyay in 2005.[3] Bhattacharya regularly edited a literary magazine Bhashabandhan.[4] He was secretary of Ganasanskriti Parisad, the cultural organization of CPIML Liberation.[5]

  1. ^ Kartik Chandra Dutt, ed. (1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. Sahitya Akademi. p. 164. ISBN 81-260-0873-3.
  2. ^ Bhattacharya, Nabarun (25 June 2019). Harbart (in Bengali). New Directions Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8112-2474-1.
  3. ^ Nathan Lee (10 December 2008). "Storm Advisory: Cyclone of a Life on the Horizon". New York Times.
  4. ^ Nabarun Bhattacharya: Aesthetics and Politics in a World after Ethics. Bloomsbury Publishing. 30 September 2020. ISBN 978-93-89812-48-0.
  5. ^ Bagchi, Jasodhara (7 January 2005). The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970-2000: The Challenge Ahead. SAGE Publications India. ISBN 978-81-321-0178-9.