Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

male, deceased (1941) (India)
(7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright,...
Jibanananda Das

Jibanananda Das

male, deceased (1954)
Jibanananda Das (17 February, 1899 - 22 October, 1954) is an acclaimed Bengal poet. He is considered one of the precursors who introduced modernist...
Girish Chandra Sen

Girish Chandra Sen

male, deceased (1910)
Girish Chandra Sen (1836-1910), a Brahmo missionary, was the first person to translate the holy "Qur’an" into Bengali language in 1886. It was hi...
Shamsur Rahman

Shamsur Rahman

male, deceased (2006)
Shamsur Rahman (October 24, 1929 – August 17, 2006) was a Bangladeshi poet and journalist. Rahman wrote more than sixty books of poetry and is co...

Upendrakishore Ray

male, deceased (1915)
Upendrokishore Ray, also known as Upendrokishore Raychowdhury was a famous Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer. He was born on 10...
Jagdish Chandra Bose

Jagdish Chandra Bose

male, deceased (1937)
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (November 30, 1858 - November 23, 1937) was a Bengali physicist from undivided India, who pioneered the investigation of...
Selina Hossain

Selina Hossain

female, 62 years old
Selina Hossain, (1947), a female author of Bengali Literature, living in Bangladesh, is a famous novelist.
Ashutosh Mukherjee

Ashutosh Mukherjee

male
Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay was one among the more prominent writers of modern Bengali literature. He was born in 1920 at Bajrajogini, Dacca (now Dhaka)....
Narayan Sanyal

Narayan Sanyal

male, deceased (2005)
Sri Narayan Sanyal (26 April 1924, Calcutta - 7 February 2005) was a well-known writer of modern Bengali literature. His father was late Chittasukh...
Atin Bandyopadhyay

Atin Bandyopadhyay

male, 75 years old
Atin Bandyopadhyay, (anglicised spelling of surname: Banerjee) is a noted writer of Bengali literature. He was born in 1934 in Rainadi, Dhaka....