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Sandipan Chattopadhyay was born on 25 October, 1933 in Howrah, Bengal Presidency, British India, is an Indian Bengali language writer (1933-2005). Discover Sandipan Chattopadhyay's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 25 October 1933
Birthday 25 October
Birthplace Howrah, Bengal Presidency, British India
Date of death 12 December, 2005
Died Place Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality India

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1933

Sandipan Chattopadhyay (25 October 1933 – 12 December 2005) was an Indian Bengali writer.

1960

In the late 1960s he initiated a series of self-published works, including ‘Biplab O Rajmohon (1969)’, ‘Shomen Paliter Boibahik (1970)’ and ‘25she Boishakher Shurjo (1970)’.

1961

His 1961 book "Kritadas Kritadasi" changed the landscape of Bengali fiction and made his name.

A staunch anti-establishment figure and a supporter of creative freedom, Sandipan for some time refused association with the big Bengali publishing houses.

He was one of the pioneers of the Hungryalism Movement হাংরি আন্দোলন, also known as the Hungry generation, during 1961–65, though he, along with Binoy Majumdar, Shakti Chattopadhyay quit the movement over literary differences with fellow members Malay Roy Choudhury, Subimal Basak, Tridib Mitra and Samir Roychoudhury.

Sandipan's first publication was a book of short stories, ‘Kritadash Kritadashi’ (1961); his second collection of short stories ‘Shamabeto Protiddwandi o Anyanyo’ was published after a hiatus of nine years.

1965

In 1965 he married Rina Chattopadhyay.

1966

Trina Chattopadhyay, their only child, was born in 1966.

1977

Called ‘the prince of little magazines’ by friend and fellow poet Shakti Chattopadhyay, Sandipan's novel ‘Ekhon Amar Kono Ashukh Nei’ was published in the annual Anandabazar Patrika in 1977, after which his novels and short stories were published by big houses such as Protikhhon and Ajkal.

Soon after the publication of his early masterpiece ‘Bijoner Raktomangsho’, when everyone started to compare him with Albert Camus, Sandipan declared, he had not read Camus.

However, he called himself ‘Camus-kator’(i.e. in awe of Camus) after reading him later.

His other favourite European writers were Franz Kafka and Jean Genet.

Poet Shankha Ghosh called him the ‘only contemporary European-minded Bengali author’.

1980

Sandipan joined Ajkal as an employee in the 1980s and his novels became a regular feature in the Pujo-shankhyas of Ajkal from then on until his death.

1981

Sandipan Chattopadhyay worked as an editorial assistant with Aajkaal Daily from its inception in 1981.

There, he pioneered the publishing of images and letters to the editor.

He continued his association with Aajkaal until his death.

He published several works of fiction for this paper's Sarod (Annual) edition, which later became best-selling novels.

Sandipan was the seventh child of Upendranath Chattopadhyay and Narayani Chattopadhyay.

1989

Fellow writer Shyamal Gangopadhyay jokingly said that Sandipan always wrote great French in Bengali and also considered his novel Hiroshima, My Love (1989) to be the first truly international novel written in the language.

An avid admirer of Kamalkumar Majumdar and his inheritance of a Bankimi brand of Bengali modernity as different from the Tagorian model on the one hand and someone steeped into the European avant garde on the other, Sandipan's aesthetics has within it, an ambivalent dialogue between the indigenous and the Western.

While he held himself as a true Indian writer on the ground of writing in the vernacular, he also expressed his wish of undergoing his own funeral journey not with a Gita, but a copy of James Joyce's Ulysses on his chest.

Sandipan's reception in the 60s was marked with the European existentialist ambit of Kafka, Camus, Sartre and so on.

Sandipan's works indeed have echoes from these authors and narrative situations that can be seen as a representation of the absurdist human condition.

Rubi in Rubi Kakhan ashbe

1993

(1993) is reminiscent of Samuel Beckett's Godot as a principle of absence and Rajmohon in Biplab O Rajmohon

is definitely influenced by Camus's notions of suicide.

1995

As the Ajkal edition of his complete novels testifies, he received two of the most coveted awards of the literary establishment — Bankim Purashkar in 1995 and Shahityo Academy Purashkar in 2002.

As representative of an aggressively experimental postmodernist avant-garde, Sandipan Chattopadhyay alternated between the mainstream and the parallelstream, the establishment and the anti-establishment, blurring their distinctions in the process.

2000

He was awarded the Sahitya Academy award for his book Ami O Banabihari.In His Sahityo Academy Award-winning novel Ami O Banabihari (2000), Sandipan fashions a very subtle critique of the ruling Communist party on the basis of an exclusion and silencing of the real ‘sub-altern’—the tribal proletariat.

His decision to dedicate the novel to Budhyadeb Bhattacharya (called ‘poet, dramatist and minister’ in the dedicatory note) is a funny little polemic!

2005

He died after a prolonged respiratory illness in December 2005.

Some of his best known writings include Cholerar Dingulite Prem, "Shaper Chokher Bhitor Diye" (short story), Kukur Samparke Duto Ekta Katha Ja Ami Jani, "Seishab Dinratri" (short story), Hiroshima, My Love, Astitva Atithi Tumi, Esho Nipabane, Kritodas kritodasi, Biplob o Rajmohan, Rubi kakhon asbe, Jongoler Dinratri, Ami Arob Guerrilla der sSomorthon Kori, Double bed a eka, and Swarger nirjon upokule.