Nabarun Bhattacharya
| Nabarun Bhattacharya | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 June 1948 Baharampur (Berhampur), West Bengal |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Kolkata, India |
| Occupation | writer, editor, theater activist |
| Language | Bengali |
| Notable works | Herbert (1994), "Andho Biral", "Fyataru" |
| Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Award (Bengali) |
| Relatives | Bijon Bhattacharya (Father) Mahashweta Devi (Mother) |
Nabarun Bhattacharya (23 June 1948 – 31 July 2014) was an Indian Bengali writer who was committed to a revolutionary and radical aesthetics. He was born at Baharampur (Berhampur), West Bengal. He was the only child of actor, playwright Bijon Bhattacharya and writer, activist Mahashweta Devi.[1]
His novel, Herbert (1993), which was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, and adapted into a film of the same name in 2005, by Suman Mukhopadhyay.[2]
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Personal life
He studied in Kolkata, first Geology, then English, from Calcutta University.[1]
In an interview, Nabarun has said that once he used to be a hardline communist but is no longer so. In response to a question regarding what he thinks to be the most prominent ideological change in him, he says "I am no longer anthropocentric".[3]
Works
Aside from fiction, he has also written poetry, of which Ei Mrityu Upotyoka Aaamaar Desh Na (This Valley of Death Is Not My Country) is an example.
The characters called Fyataru
His magic realist writings introduced a strange set of human beings to Bengali readers, called Fyataru (fyat: the sound created by kites while they are flown; otherwise, fyat has also a hint of someone worthless, deriving from the words foto, faaltu; uru: related to flying), who are an anarchic underclass fond of sabotage and are capable of flying whenever they utter the mantra 'fyat fyat sh(n)aai sh(n)aai' (This mantra was made into a song by the popular Bangla band Chandrabindoo in one of its albums[4]). They appear in his books Mausoleum, Kaangaal Maalshaat, Fatarur Bombachaak and Fyatarur Kumbhipaak.[5] Suman Mukhopadhyay, who was basically from a theatrical background, dramatized Kaangaal Maalshaat.[6]
Major works
- Kaangaal Maalshaat (Hooghly: Saptarshi Prakashan, 2003)
- Herbert (Kolkata: Deys, 1994)
- Lubdhak (Barasat: Abhijan Publishers,(+918017090655) 2006)
- Ei Mrityu Upotyoka Aamaar Desh Na (Hooghly: Saptarshi, 2004)
- Halaljhanda o Onyanyo (Hooghly: Saptarshi, 2009)
- Mahajaaner Aayna (Kolkata: Bhashabandhan, 2010)
- Fyaturur Kumbhipak (Kolkata: Bhashabandhan)
- Raater Circus (Kolkata: Bhashabandhan)
- Anarir Naarigyan (Kolkata: Bhashabandhan)
Death
Nabarun Bhattacharya died of intestinal cancer at Thakurpukur cancer hospital, Kolkata on 31 July 2014.[7]
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External links
- Articles with dead external links from October 2011
- Use Indian English from July 2014
- All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English
- Use dmy dates from November 2015
- Bengali-language writers
- 1948 births
- 2014 deaths
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali
- Indian male novelists
- People from Kolkata
- Bengali writers
- Indian magazine editors
- University of Calcutta alumni
- People from Baharampur
- 20th-century novelists
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