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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|1965 novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay}}<br />
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| name = Atmaprakash<br />
| author = [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]]<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Bengali<br />
| genre = [[Semi-autobiographical]]<br />
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'''''Atmaprakash''''' ({{lit|Self Revelation|Emergence}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-11-15 |title=Sunil Gangopadhyay: Irreverent romantic |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/obituary/irreverent-romantic/article30168316.ece |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Frontline |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=IANS |date=October 23, 2012 |title=Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay passes away |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2012/Oct/23/bengali-writer-sunil-gangopadhyay-passes-away-418170.html |access-date=April 19, 2025 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>) is the 1965 [[debut novel]] by [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]], first published in the special Puja issue of [[Desh (magazine)|Desh]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=Aug 31, 2013 |title=History made easy |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1428880854 |work=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]]|id={{ProQuest|1428880854}} }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=March 20, 2025 |title=Iowa Residency: End of the Road? |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/3179241197 |access-date=2025-04-19 |work=[[The Hindustan Times]]|id={{ProQuest|3179241197}} }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-10-24 |title=Bengali literature's first light goes out |url=https://punemirror.com/news/india/bengali-literatures-first-light-goes-out/cid5266328.htm |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=punemirror.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bhattacharya |first=Sourin |date=2012 |title=Sunil Gangodpadhyay (1934-2012) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43856617 |journal=Indian Literature |volume=56 |issue=6 (272) |pages=16–22 |jstor=43856617 |issn=0019-5804}}</ref> It was largely based on the [[bohemian lifestyle]] Sunil led in the 1960s,<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 19, 2007 |title=City with a conscience [india] |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/428274326 |access-date=2025-04-19 |work=[[Times of India]]|id={{ProQuest|428274326}} }}</ref> and he cited [[Jack Kerouac]]'s writing style as an inspiration.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Datta |first=Ketaki |date=2013 |title=Sunil Gangopadhyay: In Conversation with Ketaki Datta |journal=[[Muse India]] |volume=52}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Baker |first=Deborah |title=A Blue Hand |publisher=[[Penguin Group]] |isbn=978-1594201585 |pages=219–220 |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Aranyer Din Ratri (novel)|''Aranyer Din Ratri'']]<br />
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