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List of Bengali-language authors (chronological) 
Summary
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.
| Bengali literature বাংলা সাহিত্য | |
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| Bengali literature | |
| By category Bengali language | |
| Bengali language authors | |
| Chronological list – Alphabetic List | |
| Bengali writers | |
| Writers – Novelists – Poets | |
| Forms | |
| Novel – Poetry – Science Fiction | |
| Institutions and awards | |
| Literary Institutions Literary Prizes | |
| Related Portals Literature Portal India Portal | |
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:
- 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
- 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
- Nur Qutb Alam (14th century)
- Shah Muhammad Saghir (14th century)
- Zainuddin (15th century)
- Ramai Pandit (15th century)
- Boru Chandidas (15th century)
- Krittibas Ojha (1381 — 1461)
- Krishnadasa Kaviraja (1496 – 15??)
- Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan (16th century)
- Dom Antonio (16th century)
- Kashiram Das (16th century)
- Dwija Madhab (16th century)
- Syed Sultan (1550–1648)
- Alaol (1606–1680)
- Afzal Ali (17th century)
- Abdul Hakim (17th century)
- Daulat Quazi (17th century)
- Rupram Chakrabarty (17th century)
18th century edit
- Heyat Mahmud (1693–1760)
- Bharatchandra Ray (1712–1760)
- Muhammad Muqim
- Ramprasad Sen (1720–1781)
- Rahimunnessa (1763–1800)
- Ramram Basu (1751–1813)
19th century edit
- 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
- Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940)
- 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 Quadir (1906–1984)
- Humayun Kabir (1906–1969)
- Satinath Bhaduri (1906–1965)
- Bande Ali Mia (1907–1979)
- Satyen Sen (1907–1981)
- Nurul Momen 'Natyaguru' (1908–1990)
- 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)
- Begum Sufia Kamal (1911–1999)
- 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)
- Maniklal Sinha (1916-1994)
- Ahsan Habib (1917–1985)
- Akbar Hossain (1917–1981)
- Bijan Bhatacharya (1917–1978)
- Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay (1917–1995)
- Shawkat Osman (1917–1998)
- Amiya Bhūşhan Majumdār (1918–2001)
- Farrukh Ahmed (1918–1974)
- Narayan Gangopadhyay (1918–1970)
- Sarder Jayenuddin (1918–1986)
- Sikandar Abu Zafar (1919–1975)
- Abu Rushd (1919–2010)
- Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003)
- Nilima Ibrahim (1921–2002)
- Ahmed Sharif (1921–1999)
- 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)
- 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)
- Ritwik Ghatak (1925–1976)
- Shahed Ali (1925–2001)
- Abu Ishaque (1926–2003)
- Romena Afaz (1926–2003)
- Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016)
- Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (1926–1971)
- Narayan Debnath (1925-2022)
- Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926–1997)
- 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)
- Utpal Dutt (1929–1993)
- Abdullah-Al-Muti (1930–1998)
- 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)
- 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 (1934-2022)
- Atin Bandyopadhyay (1934-2019)
- Sudhir Chakravarti (1934–2020)
- Binoy Majumdar (1934–2006)
- Mohit Chattopadhyay (1934–2012)
- Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012)
- Shakti Chattopadhyay (1934–1995)
- Zahir Raihan (1935–1972)
- Rabeya Khatun (1935-2021)
- Shahid Akhand (born 1935)
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 1935)
- Syed Shamsul Haque (1935–2016)
- Abubakar Siddique (born 1936)
- Al Mahmud (1936–2019)
- Amiya Kumar Bagchi (born 1936)
- Bashir Al Helal (1936-2021)
- Buddhadeb Guha (1936-2021)
- Dilara Hashim (born 1936)
- Jatin Sarker (born 1936)
- Razia Khan (1936–2011)
- 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)
- Makbula Manzoor (1938-2020)
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938–2019)
- Malay Roy Choudhury (born 1939)
- Abdullah Abu Sayeed (born 1939)
- Bani Basu (born 1939)
- Dibyendu Palit (1939–2019)
- Hasan Azizul Huq (1939-2021)
- Hasnat Abdul Hye (born 1939)
- Iffat Ara (born 1939)
- Rizia Rahman (1939–2019)
- Bipradash Barua (born 1940)
- Rahat Khan (1940–2020)
- Sasthipada Chattopadhyay (1941–2023)
- Abdul Mannan Syed (1943–2010)
- Ahmed Sofa (1943–2006)
- Akhtaruzzaman Elias (1943–1997)
- Asad Chowdhury (born 1943)
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharya (born 1944)
- Samaresh Majumdar (1944–2023)
- Nirmalendu Goon (born 1945)
- Prabir Ghosh (1945–2023)
- 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
- Ekram Ali (born 1950)
- Manoranjan Byapari (born 1950)
- Suchitra Bhattacharya (1950–2015)
- Joy Goswami (born 1954)
- Imdadul Haq Milan (born 1955)
- Anil Ghorai (born 1957)
- Moinul Hassan ( 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)
- Baby Halder (born 1973)
- Moniruddin Khan (born 1974)
- Srijato (born 1975)
- Subhro Bandopadhyay (born 1978)
- Aveek Sarkar (born 1979)
- Himanish Goswami
- Afsar Amed (1959 – 2018)
- Chandril Bhattacharya
- Chinmoy Guha (Born 1958)
- Abul Bashar (1951)
- Mimi Mondal (Born 1988)
- Mohammad Nazim Uddin
- Sadat Hossain (Born 1984)
References edit
- 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]