Hemendra Kumar Roy

Hemendra Kumar Roy
Born(1888-09-02)2 September 1888
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died18 April 1963(1963-04-18) (aged 74)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationWriter

Hemendra Kumar Roy (2 September 1888 – 18 April 1963) was an Indian Bengali writer noted for his contribution to the early development of the genre of children's literature in the language.[1] He was a noted contributor to the early development of Bengali detective fiction with his 'Jayanta-Manik' and adventurist 'Bimal-Kumar' stories, dealing with the exploits of Jayanta, his assistant Manik, and police inspector Sunderbabu. Roy also translated the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám into Bengali.[2] Roy's 'Ajab Deshe Amala' is a well-known translation of Alice in Wonderland.

  1. ^ Mohan Lal (1 January 2006). The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume Five (Sasay To Zorgot). Sahitya Akademi. pp. 3889–. ISBN 978-81-260-1221-3. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  2. ^ Pinaki Roy (1 January 2008). The Manichean Investigators: A Postcolonial and Cultural Rereading of the Sherlock Holmes and Byomkesh Bakshi Stories. Sarup & Sons. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-81-7625-849-4. Retrieved 2 August 2012.