Manish Ghatak

Manish Ghatak

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Manish Ghatak Biography

Manish Ghatak was a noted writer from Berhampore associated with Bengali literature. He was a well-known poet and novelist of 20th century, who used the pen name Jubanashwa for his literary works. A well-known writer of neo-realist era of Bengali literature, named Kallol, placed approximately between 1923 and 1935, Premendra Mitra, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Buddhadeb Basu are other major young writers who became fully active with their literary works during this period. Ghatak lived during the period, 1902–1979. Iconic Bengali film director Ritwik Ghatak was his youngest brother. Famous writer Mahasweta Devi is his elder daughter and Nabarun Bhattacharya, Mahasweta Devi’s elder son was also a well-known literal.

 

Manish Ghatak was born in 1902 in Berhampore as the son of Suresh Chandra Ghatak and Indubala Devi. He belonged to a family steeped in reading habit. His family has given birth to many intellectuals associated with arts and literature. His younger brother Ritwik Ghatak is a very famous Bengali film director, whose name is always taken aside Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, when the discussion is about parallel cinema. Manish’s daughter and grandson too are great Bengali writers - Mahasweta Devi and Nabarun Bhattacharya. Ghatak was married to Dharitri Devi, sister of noted sculptor Sankho Chaudhuri and well-known journalist Sachin Chaudhuri. His brother-in-law Sachin was the founder-editor of the Economic and Political Weekly too.

 

One of the pioneers of the neo-realist Kallol era of Bengali literature, he authored poems, short stories and novel. Shilalipi & Sandhya are his poetic collections while Kankhal is a published novel. Pataldangar Panchali is a book of short stories. He wrote under the pen name Jubanashwa.

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Updated: June 08, 2018

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