Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
{{Short description|Bengali writer and editor}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=February 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay
| image =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|01|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Jessore, Bengal, British India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|02|10|1917|01|27|df=yes}}
| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| resting_place =
| nationality = Indian
| education = M.A.
| alma_mater = Calcutta University
St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
| occupation = Writer, publisher, editor
| notable_works = Duranata Eagal, Nil Ghurni, Bhayankarer Jibankotha
| children = Tridib Kumar Chattopadhyay
| awards = National Award
Vidyasagar Memorial Award
}}
Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay (27 January 1917 – 10 February 1995) was a Bengali writer and editor.
Early life
Chattopadhyay was born in 1917 at Paikara village, Jessore District in British India (now in Khulna, Bangladesh).{{citation needed|date= October 2022}} His father Abani Bhushan was a mathematician and text book author.{{Cite book |title=Pratham Purush |last=Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay, Tridib Kumar Chattopadhyay |publisher=Patra Bharati |year=2012 |isbn=978-81-86986-21-9 |location=Kolkata |pages=167}} After the Entrance Examination he entered in St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. While studying in college he was attracted with revolutionary movement under the guidance of Pulin Behari Das. In 1939 Chattopadhyay joined in Communist Party of India and started work as volunteer. Muzaffar Ahmed and Nripen Chakraborty inspired him to work in Swadhinata, a Bengali Weekly magazine of the undivided Communist Party. He passed M.A. in English from the Calcutta University.{{Cite book |title=Dinesh Chandra Rachanasamagra |last=Vol - I |first=Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay |publisher=Patra Bharati |year=2017 |isbn=978-81-8374-447-8 |location=Kolkata |pages=26}}
Literary career
Chattopadhyay wrote and published number of Bengali books of Children literature from his ancestral publishing house Bidyoday Library in Kolkata. He published Kishore Bharati Child Magazine since 1968. He first got recognition for the novel Duranta Eagal which was serially released in Kishore Bharati{{cite book|author=Dineshchandra Chattopadhyay|title=Duranta igal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ALQnuAAACAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Patra Bharati}} and Nil Ghurni.{{cite book|author=Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay|title=Nil Ghurni(Bengali)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4jtDAAAQBAJ|date=31 August 2016|publisher=Patra Bharati}} In 1962 Chattopadhyay received National award for his book Bhayankarer Jibankotha{{Cite book |last=Chattopadhyay |first=Dinesh Chandra |url=https://www.amazon.in/Bhayankarer-Jiban-Dinesh-Chandra-Chattopadhyay/dp/B0C5F4CM3P/ref=sr_1_9?qid=1684918670&refinements=p_27:Dinesh+Chandra+Chattopadhyay&s=books&sr=1-9 |title=Bhayankarer Jiban Katha |date=2022-01-01 |publisher=PATRABHARATI |language=Bengali}} and Vidyasagar Smriti Puraskar in 1987 for his classic creation Duranta Eagal.{{cite book|author=Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay|title=Duranta Egal : Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1IqVAAAACAAJ|year=2010|publisher=Patra Bharati|isbn=978-81-86986-11-0}} In 1982, he established Patra Bharati, a publishing company. He sometimes used two pen names, Dinanath Kashyap and Kathak Thakur.{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol - II|first=Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2004|isbn=81-86806-99-7|location=Kolkata|pages=130}}
Works
- Duranta Eagal{{Cite book |last=Chattopadhyay |first=Dinesh Chandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sYqVEAAAQBAJ&q=Dinesh+Chandra+Chattopadhyay |title=Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay : Duronto Eagal |date=2010 |publisher=PATRA BHARATI |isbn=978-81-86986-11-0 |language=en}}
- Nil Ghurni{{Cite book |last=Chattopadhyay |first=Dinesh Chandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YPpIwgEACAAJ |title=Neel Ghurni : Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay |date=2010 |publisher=Patra Bharati |isbn=978-81-8374-070-8 |language=en}}
- Manush Omanush{{Cite web |title=Manush-Omanush |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/119597939-manush-omanush |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
- Kaler Joyadanka Baje{{Cite web |title=কালের জয়ডঙ্কা বাজে |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/95896553 |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
- Bigganer Duswapna{{Cite web |last=পুস্তক পরিচয় ২ |title=ঘুঙুরবাঁধা এক হরবোলা |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/culture/book-reviews/book-review-of-some-recent-books-1.786959 |access-date=15 April 2024}}
- Dussahasi Ranju
- Bhayankarer Jibankotha
- Bhaba Samagra (Vol 1 & 2)
- Galpo Bole Bharat
- Chirakaler Golpo
- Oder Banchte Dao
References
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Category:Bengali-language novelists
Category:Indian children's writers
Category:Indian magazine editors
Category:20th-century Indian novelists
Category:Novelists from West Bengal