Biography
Nabarun Bhattacharya (23 June 1948 β 31 July 2014) was an Indian writer who wrote in the Bengali language. He was born at Berhampur, West Bengal. He was the only child of actor and playwright Bijon Bhattacharya and writer and activist Mahashweta Devi. His maternal grandfather was a writer from the Kallol era Manish Ghatak. Visionary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak was his great uncle.
His novel, Herbert (1993), was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award and adapted into a film of the same name by Suman Mukhopadhyay in 2005.
Bhattacharya regularly edited a literary magazine Bhashabandhan. He was secretary of Ganasanskriti Parisad, the cultural organization of CPIML Liberation.
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GenderMale
Birthday1948-06-23
Deathday2014-07-31 (66 years old)
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FatherBijon Bhattacharya
MotherMahasweta Devi
RelativesMaitreesh Ghatak, Manish Ghatak
CitizenshipsDominion of India, India
AwardsSahitya Akademi Award in Bengali
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