Alokranjan Dasgupta
Alokeranjan Dasgupta (6 October 1933 – 17 November 2020) was a Bengali poet who was the author of over 20 books of poetry. He translated Bengali and Santal poetry and plays into English and German, and also translated literature from German and French into Bengali. He also published a number of books of essays, and was well known for his distinctive prose style.
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Alokranjan Dasgupta
- Name
- Alokeranjan Dasgupta
- Birthplace
- Kolkata, Bengal Presidency, British India
- Place of death
- Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Occupation
- Writer, author
- Education
- * Viswa Bharati University
- Awards
- Ananda Puraskar(1985), Rabindra Puraskar(1987), Sahitya Akademi Award(1992), Goethe Medal(1985), Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (2005)
- Born
- 1933 · Kolkata.
- Died
- 2020
- Nationality
- India · British Raj · Dominion of India
- Known for
- Moromi Korat
- Honours
- Sahitya Akademi Award · Goethe Medal · Ananda Puraskar · Pravasi Bharatiya Samman · Rabindra Puraskar
- Languages
- German · Bangla
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Alokeranjan Dasgupta (6 October 1933 – 17 November 2020) was a Bengali poet who was the author of over 20 books of poetry. He translated Bengali and Santal poetry and plays into English and German, and also translated literature from German and French into Bengali. He also published a number of books of essays, and was well known for his distinctive prose style.
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Biography
Biography
Alokranjan Dasgupta studied at University of Calcutta and Visva-Bharati University. The recorded working language is German and Bangla. Employment is recorded with Jadavpur University. Works named in the authority record are Moromi Korat. Distinctions recorded are Sahitya Akademi Award, Goethe Medal, Ananda Puraskar and Pravasi Bharatiya Samman.
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• Name — Alokeranjan Dasgupta • Birthplace — Kolkata, Bengal Presidency, British India • Place of death — Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany • Occupation — Writer, author • Language — * Bengali • German • Education — * Viswa Bharati University • Presidency College • Calcutta University (PhD) • Awards — Ananda Puraskar(1985), Rabindra Puraskar(1987), Sahitya Akademi Award(1992), Goethe Medal(1985), Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (2005)
Education
Education
Dasgupta was born in 1933 in Kolkata. He studied at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, and then at St. Xavier's College, the Presidency College, and finally at the University of Calcutta, gaining a Ph.D. for his studies on the lyric in Indian poetry. He used also to be associated vigorously with the little magazines and translate the original German works into Bengali.
Career
Career
After completing his Ph.D., Dasgupta taught comparative literature and Bengali at the Department of Comparative Literature (founded by Buddhadeva Bose) at Jadavpur University from 1957 until 1971, when he went to Germany on a Humboldt Foundation Fellowship. Since 1971, he taught at the faculty of the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He was closely associated with the Deutsche-Indische Gessellschaft (DIG), which is a premier institution for promoting close links between India and Germany. A poet much admired by his fellow poets and the wannabes, his poetry is known for both thematic and technical innovations. The German government felicitated him for his contribution to bring together two different cultures together by awarding him the Goethe Medal in 1985.
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Alokranjan Dasgupta is recorded as having received Sahitya Akademi Award, Goethe Medal and Ananda Puraskar.
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1933
Alokranjan Dasgupta was born in 1933 at Kolkata.
2020
Alokranjan Dasgupta died.
Awards
Dasgupta received many awards and honors including the Sudha Basu award from the University of Calcutta (1983), the Goethe Prize in Germany (1985), the Ananda Purashkar (1985), the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (1985), the Rabindra Puraskar (1987), the Sahitya Akademi Award (1992) for his book of poems Marami Karat (translated as The Mystical Saw and Other Poems) and the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (2005).
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