Buddhadeva Bose
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Buddhadeva Bose (1908-74) was a major Bengali writer of the twentieth century. Like Rabindranath Tagore he was a versatile writer, and wrote poetry, novels, short stories, and plays. He was also an influential critic and editor.
[edit] Life
Buddhadeva Bose was born in Comilla, Bengal, now in Bangladesh. His ancestral home was in the village Malkhanagar in the Vikrampur region (in Munshiganj District, Bangladesh). He was educated in Dhaka. After completing his MA in English from the University of Dhaka, he moved to Calcutta. He taught at Ripon College and later worked as a journalist. Subsequently, he set up the Department of Comparative literature in Jadavpur University, and was on its faculty for a number of years.
Bose received the Sahitya Akademi award in 1967, and was honoured with a Padma Bhushan in 1970.
[edit] Works
He married Pratibha Shome in 1934 and have three children, Meenakshi Dutta (b.1936), Damayanti Basu Singh (b.1940) and Suddhashil Bose (1945-1987). Pratibha Bose was an accomplished singer in her teens but later concentrated on literature and became a distinguished writer in her own right. She passed away in October 14, 2006, aged 91.
Buddhadeva Bose had been at the visiting faculty in many American Universities.
[edit] References
The Selected Poems of Buddhadeva Bose/Translated and Introduced by Ketaki Kushari Dyson. New Delhi, OUP, 2003
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