Shakti Chattopadhyay

Shakti Chattopadhyay
Shakti Chattopadhyay
	Shakti Chattopadhyay
Born	25 November 1933; Jaynagar, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died	23 March 1995 (aged 61); Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Pen name	Sphulinga Samaddar
Occupation	Poet
Language	Bengali
Nationality	Indian
Period	1961-1995
Notable works	Jete Pari Kintu Keno Jabo
Notable awards	Ananda Puraskar; Sahitya Akademi Award

Shakti Chattopadhyay (Bengali: শক্তি চট্টোপাধ্যায়, romanized: Shokti Chôţţopaddhae) (25 November 1933 – 23 March 1995) was a Bengali poet and writer.

Shakti Chattopadhyay was born in Jaynagar, to Bamanath Chattopadhyay and Kamala Devi. He lost his father at the age of four and was brought up by his maternal grandfather. He passed Matriculation Examination in 1951 and got admitted to the City College to study commerce as his maternal uncle, who was a businessman and also his guardian, promised him a job of an accountant. In 1953, he passed Intermediate Commerce Examination, but gave up studying commerce and got admitted to the Presidency College (now Presidency University, Kolkata) with Honours in Bengali literature but he did not appear in the examination.

Shakti Chattopadhyay worked with Ananda Bazar Patrika from 1970 to 1994, and was a visiting professor at Visva Bharati after his retirement.^[5]

References

^ Sengupta, Samir (2005). Shakti Chattopadhyay. Makers of Indian Literature (1st ed.). New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 5. ISBN 978-81-260-2003-4.
^ Board of Editors, Bangla Akademi (2009) [1999]. Akademi Bidyarthi Bangla Abhidhan [Akademi Students' Bengali Dictionary] (in Bengali) (2nd ed.). Kolkata: Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi. p. 875. ISBN 978-81-86908-96-9. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
^ Sengupta, Samir (2005). Shakti Chattopadhyay. p. 93
^ Sengupta, Samir (2005). Shakti Chattopadhyay. p. 94
^ Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis. Scarecrow Press, USA. 22 August 2013. ISBN 9780810880245. Retrieved 2 September 2019. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

External links

[1] Sengupta, Samir (2005). Shakti Chattopadhyay. Makers of Indian Literature (1st ed.). New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 5. ISBN 978-81-260-2003-4.

[2] Board of Editors, Bangla Akademi (2009) [1999]. Akademi Bidyarthi Bangla Abhidhan [Akademi Students' Bengali Dictionary] (in Bengali) (2nd ed.). Kolkata: Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi. p. 875. ISBN 978-81-86908-96-9. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)

[3] Sengupta, Samir (2005). Shakti Chattopadhyay. p. 93

[4] Sengupta, Samir (2005). Shakti Chattopadhyay. p. 94

[5] Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis. Scarecrow Press, USA. 22 August 2013. ISBN 9780810880245. Retrieved 2 September 2019. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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