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Amar Mitra (Bengali: অমর মিত্র (born 30 August 1951) is an eminent writer in Bengali living in Kolkata, West Bengal. His elder brother is notable actor Manoj Mitra. Early life. Mitra was born in Satkhira and their family came to Basirhat in 1950s. He was a student of chemistry, His father
Apr 7, 2022 · Bengali author Amar Mitra was awarded with this year’s O.Henry prize for a short story he wrote 45 years back. The short story titled 'Gaonburo' is a Bengali short fiction written in 1977. Mitra was born in Kolkata and is a well known writer of Bengali literature.
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A mythical tale at one level, the story draws inspiration from the author’s own life. As an official of the land reforms department of the state government, Mitra had to travel to remote villages of Midnapore, then an undivided district. Just like the author, his character Fakirchand too sets out on a long walk. The old villager, a lonely widower a...
“I went to undivided Midnapore in 1973 when I was just 22. I spent eight years in the villages. I wrote the story when I was in a village called Kultikri, now in Jhargram district. A beautiful place it was. I spent a lot of time with the Adivasis and heard about their plight from their own mouth,” Mitra says. Playwright and director Debesh Chattopa...
Mitra’s novels like Dhanapatir Char (Penguin Books is publishing a translation soon), Momenshahi Upakhyan or Ashwacharita often come to be associated with magic realism. But the author says it’s his own style, a natural inclination. Playing with myths is his passion, he says; myths that remain in our psyche unscathed by time. Perhaps this is why Th...
The short story of an old man's quest for the Big Man who can solve his problems has won the oldest major award for fiction in the US. Written in the 1970s, the story draws inspiration from the author's own experience of travelling to remote villages of West Bengal.
Apr 6, 2022 · Amar Mitra wrote the story back in 1977, when he was only 26; today, it has fetched him the 1919-founded O. Henry Award, whose past winners include William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Raymond...
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Amar Mitra is a Bengali writer living in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Born on 30 August 1951, he was awarded with Sahitya Akademi award in 2006 for his novel Dhruboputra.
Apr 5, 2022 · Bengali author Amar Mitra has won the prestigious O Henry Prize for short fiction this year. He received the award for his short story, Gaonburo, which was translated into English (The Old Man Of ...
Apr 5, 2022 · Bengali author Amar Mitra has been conferred the prestigious 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction. A list of 20 authors, who have been awarded the coveted prize, was announced on Monday.
