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	'''Nirendranath Chakravarty''' (19 October 1924 – 25 December 2018) was a ~~popular~~ contemporary [[Bengal]]i [[poet]].<ref name="Bose">{{cite book\|last=Bose\|first=Amalendu\|title=Contemporary Bengali Literature\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vlsch77pobsC&pg=PA12\|access-date=22 August 2010\|publisher=Academic Publishers\|page=12}}</ref>		'''Nirendranath Chakravarty''' (19 October 1924 – 25 December 2018) was a contemporary [[Bengal]]i [[poet]].<ref name="Bose">{{cite book\|last=Bose\|first=Amalendu\|title=Contemporary Bengali Literature\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vlsch77pobsC&pg=PA12\|access-date=22 August 2010\|publisher=Academic Publishers\|page=12}}</ref>
	He lived in Bangur Avenue, Kolkata.		He lived in Bangur Avenue, Kolkata.

	== Biography ==		== Biography ==
			[[File:Pranab Mukherjee with noted Bengali poet Shri Nirendranath Chakraborty after presenting him Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award 2012, at a function, organized by ‘The Bengal’.jpg\|thumb\|Nirendranath Chakraborty receiving Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award 2012 (Kolkata, 2014)]]
	He was born in Faridpur district of undivided Bengal in 1924. After graduating from the University of Calcutta, he started journalism in the daily "Raiyah". He won the [[Sahitya Academy Award]] in 1974 for the book of poems Ulanga Raja (The Naked King). In 2007, the [[University of Calcutta]] awarded him an honorary Doctor of Literature degree.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://zeenews.india.com/culture/every-generation-owes-their-love-quotes-to-these-7-legendary-bengali-poets_1971077.html\|title=Every generation owes their love quotes to these 7 legendary Bengali poets\|website=zeenews.india.com\|access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref> Chakravarty also wrote few detective novels of [[Bhaduri Moshai]].<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSirCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT57\|title=QuijjhoTika: A Quiz Book\|author=Prabirendra Chattopadhyay\|publisher=Sristisukh Prokashan LLP\|isbn=978-1-63415-360-7\|page=57\|access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref>		He was born in Faridpur district of undivided Bengal in 1924. After graduating from the University of Calcutta, he started journalism in the daily "Raiyah". He won the [[Sahitya Academy Award]] in 1974 for the book of poems Ulanga Raja (The Naked King). In 2007, the [[University of Calcutta]] awarded him an honorary Doctor of Literature degree.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://zeenews.india.com/culture/every-generation-owes-their-love-quotes-to-these-7-legendary-bengali-poets_1971077.html\|title=Every generation owes their love quotes to these 7 legendary Bengali poets\|website=zeenews.india.com\|access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref> Chakravarty also wrote few detective novels of [[Bhaduri Moshai]].<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSirCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT57\|title=QuijjhoTika: A Quiz Book\|author=Prabirendra Chattopadhyay\|publisher=Sristisukh Prokashan LLP\|isbn=978-1-63415-360-7\|page=57\|access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref>

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'''Nirendranath Chakravarty''' (19 October 1924 – 25 December 2018) was a popular contemporary [[Bengal]]i [[poet]].<ref name="Bose">{{cite book|last=Bose|first=Amalendu|title=Contemporary Bengali Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vlsch77pobsC&pg=PA12|access-date=22 August 2010|publisher=Academic Publishers|page=12}}</ref>
He lived in Bangur Avenue, Kolkata.

== Biography ==
He was born in Faridpur district of undivided Bengal in 1924. After graduating from the University of Calcutta, he started journalism in the daily "Raiyah". He won the [[Sahitya Academy Award]] in 1974 for the book of poems Ulanga Raja (The Naked King). In 2007, the [[University of Calcutta]] awarded him an honorary Doctor of Literature degree.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://zeenews.india.com/culture/every-generation-owes-their-love-quotes-to-these-7-legendary-bengali-poets_1971077.html|title=Every generation owes their love quotes to these 7 legendary Bengali poets|website=zeenews.india.com|access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref> Chakravarty also wrote few detective novels of [[Bhaduri Moshai]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSirCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT57|title=QuijjhoTika: A Quiz Book|author=Prabirendra Chattopadhyay|publisher=Sristisukh Prokashan LLP|isbn=978-1-63415-360-7|page=57|access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref>

==Notable works==
===Poetry anthology===
Some of his poetry anthologies are:
*Nil Nirjan
*Nirokto Karabi
*Andhokar Baranda
*Prothom Nayok
*Somoy baro kom
*Jabotiyo Valobasi
*Ghumiye porar aage
*Shrestho Kobita
*Kobita Samagro 1
*Kobita Samagro 2

===Juvenile literature===
*Saada Bagh
*Bibir Chora
*Baaro Maser Chora
*Pitri Purush
*Amalkanti

===Some of his popular poems are===
*Amalkanti Roddur Hotay Cheyachilo
*Kolkatar Jisu
*Ulanga Raja

He also translated Hergé's "The Adventures of Tintin" in Bengali.

==Death==
Chakravarty died on 25 December 2018 at 12:25 pm following a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. He was 94 years old, and at the time, was suffering from breathing problem in the last few months.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://zeenews.india.com/bengali/entertainment/poet-nirendranath-chakravarty-is-no-more_238115.html|title=প্রয়াত কবি নীরেন্দ্রনাথ চক্রবর্তী|date=25 December 2018|website=[[Zee 24 Ghanta]]|language=bn|access-date=25 December 2018}}</ref>

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[[Category:Bengali people]]
[[Category:Bengali detective fiction writers]]
[[Category:Bengali writers]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali]]
[[Category:St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College alumni]]
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]
[[Category:Indian magazine editors]]
[[Category:Indian male writers]]
[[Category:Indian children's writers]]
[[Category:Poets from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Novelists from West Bengal]]

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