Subodh Ghosh
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| birth_place = Hazaribagh, Bengal Presidency, British India
(present-day Jharkhand, India)
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|death_place = Calcutta, West Bengal, India
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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
Suno baro nari 1960 film
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0315926}}
- {{OL author|4573377A}}
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Category:Novelists from Jharkhand
Category:Bengali-language writers
Category:Indian male journalists
Category:Indian male novelists
Category:Filmfare Awards winners
Category:Indian male short story writers
Category:People from Hazaribagh
Category:20th-century Indian novelists
Category:Journalists from Jharkhand
Category:20th-century Indian short story writers
Category:20th-century Indian journalists