List of Bengali-language authors (chronological)

Template:Bengali literature This is a Chronological list of Bengali language authors (regardless of nationality or religion), by the order of their year of birth. Alphabetical order is used only when chronological order cannot be ascertained.

The list also marks the winners of major international and national awards:

Nobel Prize winners are marked with
Ramon Magsaysay Award winners are marked with:
Bharat Ratna winners are marked with:
Padma Vibhushan winners are marked with:
Padma Bhushan winners are marked with:
Independence Day Award winners are marked with:
Ekushey Padak winners are marked with: File:Ekushey.svg
Banga-Vibhushan winners are marked with:

For an alphabetic listing of Bengali language authors please refer to alphabetic list of Bengali language authors.

Ancient age[edit | edit source]

Aryadev (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
Bhusukupa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
Dhendhanpa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
Dombipa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
Kahnapa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
Kukkuripa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
Luipa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
Minapa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
Sarhapa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
Shabarpa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}

Middle age[edit | edit source]

Dom Antonio (16th century)
Boru Chandidas (????)
Ramai Pandit (13th/14th century)
Krittibas Ojha (1443–15??)
Kashiram Das (16th century)
Krishnadasa Kaviraja (1496 – 15??)
Dwija Madhab (16th century)
Rupram Chakrabarty (17th century)
Syed Sultan (1550–1648)
Alaol (1606–1680)
Abdul Hakim (17th century)
Daulat Quazi (17th century)

18th century[edit | edit source]

Bharatchandra Ray (1712–1760)
Ramprasad Sen (1720–1781)
Ramram Basu (1751–1813)

19th century[edit | edit source]

Ishwar Chandra Gupta (1812–1859)
Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1882)
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891)
Lal Behari Dey (1824–1892)
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873)
Rajnarayan Basu (1826–1892)
Dinabandhu Mitra (1830–1873)
Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay (1834–1889)
Girish Chandra Sen (1835/1836-1910)
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894)
Kaliprasanna Singha (1840–1870)
Dwijendranath Tagore (1840-1926)
Girish Chandra Ghosh (1844–1912)
Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912)
Nabinchandra Sen (1847–1909)
Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919)
Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848–1909)
Jyotirindranath Tagore (1849–1925)
Hara Prasad Shastri (1853–1931)
Hason Raja (1854–1922)
Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858–1937)
Sheikh Abdur Rahim (1859–1931)
Akkhoykumar Boral (1860–1919)
Jaladhar Sen (1860–1939)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913)
Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (1863–1915)
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)
Ashutosh Mukherjee (1864–1924)
Kamini Roy (1864–1933)
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi (1864–1919)
Rajanikanta Sen (1865–1910)
Dinesh Chandra Sen (1866–1939)
Gaganendranath Tagore (1867–1938)
Pramatha Chowdhury (1868–1946)
Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1869–1953)
Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951)
Priyamvada Devi (1871–1935)
Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940)
Provatkumar Mukhopadhyay (1873–1932)
Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938)
Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1877–1957)
Jatindramohan Bagchi (1878–1948)
Ismail Hossain Shiraji (1880–1931)
Rajshekhar Bose (1880–1960)
Syed Emdad Ali (1880–1956)
Qazi Imdadul Haq (1882–1926)
Satyendranath Dutta (1882–1922)
Sheikh Fazlul Karim (1882–1936)
Hemendrakumar Roy (1883–1963)
Kumud Ranjan Mullick (1883–1970)
Nirupama Devi (1883–1951)
Gobindachandra Das (1885–1918)
Muhammad Shahidullah (1885–1969)
Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (1885–1930)
Jagadish Gupta (1886–1957)
Sukumar Ray (1887–1923)
Eyakub Ali Chowdhury (1888–1940)
Mohitolal Majumdar (1888–1952)
Kalidas Roy (1889–1975)
Mohammad Lutfur Rahman (1889–1936)
Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890–1970)
S. Wajid Ali (1890–1951)
Premankur Atorthy (1890–1964)
Sachin Sengupta (1891–1961)
Sahadat Hussain (1893–1953)
Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963)
Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950)
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (1894–1987)
Golam Mostofa (1897–1964)
Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999)
Qazi Motahar Hossain (1897–1981)
Abul Mansur Ahmed (1898–1979)
Mahbubul Alam (1898–1981)
Mohammad Barkatullah (1898–1974)
Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya (1898–1971)
Jibanananda Das (1899–1954)
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (1899–1970)
Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976)
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay (1899–1979)

Early 20th century[edit | edit source]

Sajanikanta Das (1900–1962)
Aroj Ali Matubbar (1900–1985)
Sukumar Sen (1900–1992)
Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986)
Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960)
Manoj Basu (1901–1987)
Abul Fazal (1903–1983)
Benojir Ahmed (1903–1983)
Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–1976)
Shibram Chakraborty (1903–1980)
Jasimuddin (1903–1976)
Motaher Hussain Chowdhury (1903–1956)
Premendra Mitra (1904–1988)
Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974)
Annada Shankar Ray (1904–2002)
Abdul Kadir (1906–1984) File:Ekushey.svg
Humayun Kabir (1906–1969)
Satinath Bhaduri (1906–1965)
Bande Ali Mia (1907–1979)
Satyen Sen (1907–1981)
Nurul Momen 'Natyaguru' (1908–1990) File:Ekushey.svg
Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–1974)
Dewan Mohammad Azraf (1908–1999)
Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–1956)
Gajendra Kumar Mitra (1908–1994)
Leela Majumdar (1908–2007)
Ashapoorna Devi (1909–1995)
Bishnu Dey (1909–1982)
Arun Mitra (1909–2000)
Subodh Ghosh (1909–1980)
Nihar Ranjan Gupta (1911–1986)
Abujafar Shamsuddin (1911–1989) File:Ekushey.svg
Begum Sufia Kamal (1911–1999) File:Ekushey.svg
Jyotirindranath Nandi (1912–1982)
Bimal Mitra (1912–1991)
Dinesh Das (1913–1985)
Adwaita Mallabarman (1914–1951)
Kamal Kumar Majumdar (1914–1979)
Protiva Bose (1915–2006)
Narendranath Mitra (1916–1975)
Samar Sen (1916–1987)
Khudiram Das (1916–2002)
Ahsan Habib (1917–1985) File:Ekushey.svg
Akbar Hussain (1917–1980)
Bijan Bhatacharya (1917–1978)
Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay (1917–1995)
Shawkat Osman (1917–1998) File:Ekushey.svg
Amiya Bhūşhan Majumdār (1918–2001)
Farrukh Ahmed (1918–1974)
Narayan Gangopadhyay (1918–1970)
Sarder Jayenuddin (1918–1986)
Sikandar Abu Zafar (1919–1975) File:Ekushey.svg
Abu Rushd (1919–2010)
Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003)
Nilima Ibrahim (1921–2002)
Ahmed Sharif (1921–1999) File:Ekushey.svg
Satyajit Ray (1921–1992)
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921–1990)
Bimal Kar (1921–2003)
Ramapada Chowdhury (1922–2018)
Syed Ali Ahsan (1922–2002)
Syed Waliullah (1922–1971) File:Ekushey.svg
Shaktipada Rajguru (1922–2014)
Gour Kishore Ghosh (1923–2000)
Samaresh Basu (1924–1988)
Narayan Sanyal (1924–2005)
Badal Sarkar (1925–2011)
Munier Chowdhury (1925–1971)
Rashid Karim (1925–2011) File:Ekushey.svg
Ritwik Ghatak (1925–1976)
Shahed Ali (1925–2001) File:Ekushey.svg
Abu Ishaque (1926–2003)
Romena Afaz (1926–2003)
Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016)
Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (1926–1971)
Narayan Debnath (born 1925)
Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926–1997) File:Ekushey.svg
Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926–1947)
Lokenath Bhattacharya (1927–2001)
Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury (1927–2007)
Shahidullah Kaiser (1927–1971)
Anwar Pasha (1928–1971)
Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1929–1996)
Jahanara Imam (1929–1994)
M. R. Akhtar Mukul (1929–2004)
Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006) File:Ekushey.svg
Utpal Dutt (1929–1993)
Abdullah-Al-Muti (1930–1998) File:Ekushey.svg
Syed Mustafa Siraj (1930–2012)
Moti Nandi (1931–2010)
Sailen Ghosh (1931–2016)
Kabita Sinha (1931–1999)
Nimai Bhattacharya (1931–2020)
Alauddin Al-Azad (1932–2006) File:Ekushey.svg
Muhammad Mohar Ali (1932–2007) (King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 2000)
Shankha Ghosh (1932–2021)
Nikhil Sarkar (Sripantha) (1932–2004)
Adrish Bardhan (1932–2019)
Mani Shankar Mukherjee (born 1933)
Amartya Sen (born 1933)
Anil Kumar Dutta (1933–2006)
Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005)
Samir Roychoudhury (1933–2016)
Alokeranjan Dasgupta (1933–2020)
Purnendu Patri (1933–1997)
Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (born 1934) File:Ekushey.svg
Atin Bandyopadhyay (born 1934)
Sudhir Chakravarti (1934–2020)
Binoy Majumdar (1934–2006)
Mohit Chattopadhyay (1934–2012)
Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012)
Shakti Chattopadhyay (1934–1995)
Zahir Raihan (1935–1972) File:Ekushey.svg
Rabeya Khatun (born 1935)
Shahid Akhand (born 1935)
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 1935)
Syed Shamsul Haque (1935–2016) File:Ekushey.svg
Abubakar Siddique (born 1936)
Al Mahmud (1936–2019) File:Ekushey.svg
Amiya Kumar Bagchi (born 1936)
Bashir Al Helal (born 1936)
Buddhadeb Guha (born 1936)
Dilara Hashim (born 1936)
Jatin Sarker (born 1936)
Razia Khan (1936–2011) File:Ekushey.svg
Tarapada Roy (1936–2007)
Sanjib Chattopadhyay (born 1936)
Debesh Roy (1936–2020)
Hosne Ara Shahed (born 1937)
Dilwar Khan (1937–2013)
Tahrunessa Abdullah (born 1937)
Mokbula Manzoor (born 1938)
Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938–1919)
Malay Roy Choudhury (born 1939)
Abdullah Abu Sayeed (born 1939)
Bani Basu (born 1939)
Dibyendu Palit (1939–2019)
Hasan Azizul Huq (born 1939)
Hasnat Abdul Hye (born 1939)
Iffat Ara (born 1939)
Rizia Rahman (1939–2019)
Bipradash Barua (born 1940)
Rahat Khan (1940–2020) File:Ekushey.svg
Sasthipada Chattopadhyay (born 1941)
Abdul Mannan Syed (1943–2010)
Ahmed Sofa (1943–2006)
Akhtaruzzaman Elias (1943–1997)
Asad Chowdhury (born 1943)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya (born 1944)
Samaresh Majumdar (born 1944)
Nirmalendu Goon (born 1945)
Prabir Ghosh (born 1945)
Haripada Datta (born 1947)
Humayun Azad (1947–2004)
Taradas Bandyopadhyay (1947–2010)
Selina Hossain (born 1947)
Nabarun Bhattacharya (1948–2014)
Humayun Ahmed (1948–2012 )
Abul Bashar (born 1949)
Mohammad Nurul Huda (born 1949)

Late 20th century[edit | edit source]

Ekram Ali (born 1950)
Manoranjan Byapari (1950–
Suchitra Bhattacharya (1950–2015 )
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (born 1952)
Shahidul Jahir (1953–2008)
Joy Goswami (born 1954)
Imdadul Haq Milan (born 1955)
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (1956–1992)
Anil Ghorai (born 1957)
Moinul Ahsan Saber (born 1958)
Subodh Sarkar (born 1958)
Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri
Tridib Kumar Chattopadhyay (born 1958)
Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011)
Rabisankar Bal (1962–2017)
Taslima Nasrin (born 1962)
Prachet Gupta (born 1962)
Humayun Kabir Dhali (born 1964)
Anisul Hoque (born 1965)
Rashid Askari (born 1965)
Nasreen Jahan (born 1966)
Sezan Mahmud (born 1967)
Baby Halder (born 1973)
Moniruddin Khan (born 1974)
Srijato (born 1975)
Subhro Bandopadhyay (born 1978)
Aveek Sarkar (born 1979)
Peona Afrose (born 1984)
Himanish Goswami

References[edit | edit source]

Biletey Bishshotoker Bangla Kobi, Robbani Chowdhury, Agamee Prokasion, Dhaka, 2000
History of Bengali Literature, Rabbani Choudhury, Utso, Dhaka, 2010
Bangla Literature, an English magazine edited by Sayeed Abybakar [1]

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