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Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian and the only Indian to receive this honour. [1]
"Bidrohi" (Bengali: "বিদ্রোহী"; English: "The Rebel") is a popular revolutionary Bengali poem and the most famous poem written by Kazi Nazrul Islam in December 1921. [1] [2] [3] Originally published in several periodicals, the poem was first collected in October 1922 in a volume titled Agnibeena: the first anthology of Nazrul's ...
Bengali poetry in English translation is a self-explanatory area. It is a sub-category of Bengali literature in English translation . Bengali poetry, and for that matter Bengali literature, has been translated into many other languages.
Thakurmar Jhuli (Bengali: ঠাকুরমার ঝুলি; Grandmother's Bag [of tales]) is a collection of Bengali folk tales and fairy tales. The author Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder collected some folktales of Bengali and published some of them under the name of "Thakurmar Jhuli" in 1907 (1314 of Bengali calendar).
The Krittivas Ramayan appears to be a translation into Bengali from one or another recension of the Sanskrit text known as Valmiki's Ramayana. [5] If the popular association of the Krittivas Ramayan with Krittibas Ojha and the available biographical information about him is correct, the Krittibas Ramayan was composed in the fifteenth century CE.
Jibanananda Das ( জীবনানন্দ দাশ ) (Bengali pronunciation: ['dʒibonˌanondoː daʃ]) (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) [1] was a Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language.
Ruposhi Bangla (Bengali: রূপসী বাংলা, Beautiful Bengal) is the most popular collection of poems by Jibanananda Das, the great modern Bengali poet. [1] [2] Written in 1934, the sixty-two sonnets - discovered in an exercise-book twenty years after Das wrote them - achieved instant popularity on their posthumous publication in 1957, [3] becoming a totemic symbol of freedom in ...
An example of handwritten Bengali. Part of a poem written in Bengali (and with its English translation below each Bengali paragraph) by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1926 in Hungary The Library of Whitechapel in East London with the word "বাংলা" illuminated in its front.