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]}

Awards

• Bankim Puraskar (2005)
• Ananda Puraskar (2015)
• Sahitya Akademi Award (2023) ^{[9] [10]}

References

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