Subodh Ghosh

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1909|09|14}}

| birth_place = Hazaribagh, Bengal Presidency, British India
(present-day Jharkhand, India)

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1980|03|10|1909|09|14}}

|death_place = Calcutta, West Bengal, India

| nationality = Indian

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| occupation = Journalist, writer

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Subodh Ghosh (14 September 1909 – 10 March 1980){{cite book|author=Sisir Kumar Das|title=History of Indian Literature: 1911–1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&pg=PA276|access-date=12 July 2012|date=1 January 1995|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-798-9|page=276}} was a noted Indian author of Bengali literature and a journalist associated with the Kolkata-based daily newspaper Anandabazar Patrika. His best known work, Bharat Premkatha, is about the romances of epic Indian characters and has remained very popular in the Bengali literary world. Many of his stories have been adapted in Indian films, most notably Ritwik Ghatak's Ajantrik (1958) and Bimal Roy's Sujata (1959).{{cite book|author=Gulzar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT337|title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema|author2=Govind Nihalani|author3=Saibal Chatterjee|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|year=2003|isbn=81-7991-066-0|page=337|author-link=Gulzar}} He won the Filmfare Award for Best Story twice, for Bimal Roy's Sujata (1960) and for Gulzar's Ijaazat in 1989. He was selected as a recipient for the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award (1977) but he refused it.{{Cite book|title=Subodh Ghosh-er Chhotogalpe Manobik Mulyobodh|last=Dr. Sibsankar Pal}}

Early life

Born on 14 September 1909 at Hazaribagh in present-day Jharkhand, Ghosh studied at St. Columba's College and was also privately tutored by scholar Mahesh Chandra Ghosh. At the beginning of his career, he worked as a bus conductor to financially support himself while pursuing writing as a secondary job.

Selected works

Novels

  • Tilanjoli
  • Gangotri
  • Trijama
  • Preyoahy
  • Satkiya
  • Sujata
  • Suno Boronari
  • Bosonto Tilok
  • Jiavorli
  • Bagdatta

Story-Book

  • Fossil
  • Parshuramer Kuthar
  • Gotrantar
  • Suklavishar
  • Gram Jamuna
  • Bonikornika
  • Jatugriha
  • Mon Vramar
  • Thirbijuri
  • Kusumeshu
  • Bharat Premkatha
  • Jalkamal

Others

  • Bharityo Foujer Itihash
  • Kingbodontir Deshe
  • Amritopothojatri

Film Adaptation

References

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