Swapnamoy Chakraborty

Swapnamoy Chakraborty (born 24 August 1951) is a Bengali novelist and essayist.

Career

Chakraborty was born in Kolkata. He worked in the Land Department under the Government of West Bengal and Akashvani Kolkata as an executive director.[1] He started his writing career with short stories. His first short story was published in 1972 in Amrita magazine.[2] Chakraborty's first book Bhumi Sutra was published in 1982. His book Abantinagar won the Bankim Puraskar in 2005.[3] He received Ananda Puraskar in 2012 for Holde Golap, a research based novel on LGBT communities.[4][5] In February 2019, Chakraborty alleged that Kaushik Ganguly’s film Nagarkirtan was plagiarised from his novel titled Holde Golap[6] but later he revised his views on the film.[7][8]

References
  1. চক্রবর্তী, গৌতম. "হলুদ গোলাপ ফুলে স্বপ্নময় আনন্দ-সুঘ্রাণ". www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  2. চক্রবর্তী, স্বপ্নময়. "হেডমাস্টার শ্বশুর বললেন, পড়া গেল না". www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  3. chakraborty, swapnamoy. "The fathers of Jangalmahal". @businessline. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  4. "Swapnamoy Chakraborty :: Two micro-stories | The International Writing Program". iwp.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  5. রায়চৌধুরী, যশোধরা. "যৌনতার ধারণা বদলে দিতে চেয়েছেন". www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  6. "Kaushik has plagiarised from my Holde Golap: Swapnamoy Chakraborty - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  7. "I'm grateful that Swapnamoy has revised his view: Kaushik Ganguly - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  8. "Nagarkirtan is not a cinematic adaptation of my novel: Swapnamoy Chakraborty - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 September 2021.


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