Manoranjan Byapari

Manoranjan Byapari
মনোরঞ্জন ব্যাপারী
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
02 May 2021
Preceded byAshim Kumar Majhi
ConstituencyBalagarh
Chairperson of West Bengal Dalit Sahitya Academy
Incumbent
Assumed office
14 Sep 2020
Personal details
Bornc. 1950–51[1]
Pirojpur, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
NationalityIndian
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress
Other political
affiliations		Naxalites, Communist Party of India (formerly)
SpouseAnita Byapari[2]
Children2[3]

Manoranjan Byapari (Bengali: মনোরঞ্জন ব্যাপারী; born c. 1950–51) is an Indian Bengali writer, socio-political activist, and a politician.[4] He stands as one of the pioneering authors in the realm of Dalit literature in Bengali, hailing from the Indian state of West Bengal. Hindered by financial constraints, he was precluded from availing formal education, thereby distinguishing himself as a unique exemplar—a former convict turned rickshaw puller—having authored a substantial corpus comprising twelve novels, in addition to over a hundred short stories and non-fiction essays.[5][6]

  1. ^ Byapari, Manoranjan (2018). Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography Of A Dalit. Translated by Mukherjee, Sipra. New Delhi: SAGE Publications. p. 11.
  2. ^ Byapari, Manoranjan (2018). Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography Of A Dalit. Translated by Mukherjee, Sipra. New Delhi: SAGE Publications. p. 234.
  3. ^ Byapari, Manoranjan (2018). Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography Of A Dalit. Translated by Mukherjee, Sipra. New Delhi: SAGE Publications. pp. xiii.
  4. ^ Ahluwalia, Mallika (2018). "Jijibisha: The Will to Survive: Manoranjan Byapari". Divided by Partition: United by Resilience: 21 Inspirational Stories from 1947. New Delhi: Rupa Publications. pp. 60–66.
  5. ^ "Manoranjan Byapari: from fetters to letters". The Hindu.
  6. ^ "Rickshaw puller from Kolkata steals show at 11th Jaipur Literature Festival". The Financial Express (India).