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  2. Aranyak - Wikipedia

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    Aranyak (Bengali: আরণ্যক, literally "forest-grown, of the forest" [1]) composed between 1937 and 1939 and published in 1939, is a Bengali-language novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, [2] [3] based on his years in northern Bihar, mainly in the districts of Purnea and Bhagalpur. The novel explores the journey of its protagonist ...

  3. Gora (novel) - Wikipedia

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    A new English translation by Sujit Mukherjee, based on the better text of the Bengali Collected Works of Rabindranath (1941), was issued at the Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi, in 1997. On the same better basis, an English translation by Radha Chakravarty was published by Random House in 2009 (Penguin Modern Classics).

  4. List of Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize winners for Bengali

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    Translator Title of the translation Original Title Original Language Genre Original Author Ref. 1989: Nileena Abraham: Patummar Chhagal O Balyaskhi: Pathummayude Adu and Balyakalasakhi: Malayalam: Short Stories: Vaikom Muhammad Basheer: 1990: Maitri Shukla: Unish Bigha Dui Katha: Chha Man Atha Guntha: Oriya: Novel: Fakirmohan Senapati: 1991: S ...

  5. Bengali dialects - Wikipedia

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    Some variants of Bengali, particularly Chittagonian and Chakma Bengali, have contrastive tone; differences in the pitch of the speaker's voice can distinguish words. In dialects such as Hajong of northern Bangladesh, there is a distinction between উ and ঊ , the first corresponding exactly to its standard counterpart but the latter ...

  6. Bengali literature - Wikipedia

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    The first Bangla books to be printed were those written by Christian missionaries. Dom Antonio's Brahmin-Roman-Catholic Sambad, for example, was the first Bangla book to be printed towards the end of the 17th century. Bangla writing was further developed as Bengali scholars wrote textbooks for Fort William College. Although these works had ...

  7. Adda (South Asian) - Wikipedia

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    Adda was incorporated into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2004. This word is both a standalone noun and a noun in a noun- verb compound, in Bengali . The nominalization of the word has two senses — one being the Hindi sense, and the other being the place of ritual meeting and/or conversation of a group of people (i.e., a symposium).

  8. Aalo Aandhari (A Life Less Ordinary) - Wikipedia

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    Originally written in Bengali, the book was first published in Hindi as Aalo Aandhari by Roshnai Prakashan in 2002. It was later translated by writer and publisher Urvashi Butalia into English, and published as 'A Life Less Ordinary' by Zubaan Books in collaboration with Penguin Books in 2006. The book has been translated into 25 languages.

  9. Bangladeshi English literature - Wikipedia

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    English translation of the poet's self-work, Gitanjali, to Song Offerings (1912) Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999) English writer of Bengal stories and autobiography Razia Khan (1936–2011) Poetry collections Argus Under Anaesthesia (1976) and Cruel April (1977) Farida Majid (1942–2021) Anthology of English poems Thursday Evening Anthology (1977)