List of Bengali-language authors (alphabetical)

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This article provides an alphabetical list of Bengali language authors. For a chronological list, see List of Bengali language authors.

Bangladesh

A

• Abdullah Abu Sayeed (b. 1939)
• Abdullah-Al-Muti (1930–1998)
• Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (b. 1934)
• Abdul Mannan Syed (b. 1943)
• Abdul Hakim (poet) (1620–1690)
• Abdul Kadir (poet) (1906–84)
• Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1869–1953)
• Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1929–1996)
• Abu Ishaque (1926–2003)
• Abu Rushd
• Abubakar Siddique (b. 1936)
• Abujafar Shamsuddin (1911–89)
• Abul Kashem (1920–1991)
• Abul Mansur Ahmed (1898–1979)
• Ahmed Sharif (1921–1999)
• Ahmed Sofa (1943–2001)
• Ahsan Habib (1917–1985)
• Ahsan Habib (cartoonist)
• Akhteruzzaman Elias (1943–97)
• Akbar Hussain (1917–1980)
• Alaol (1606–1680)
• Alauddin Al-Azad (b. 1932)
• Al Mahmud
• Ali Imam
• Anwar Pasha (1928–1971)
• Anisul Hoque (b. 1965)
• Aroj Ali Matubbar
• Asad Chowdhury
• A. T. M. Shamsuddin

B

• Baby Halder (b. 1973)
• Bande Ali Mia (1906–82)
• Bashir Al Helal (b. 1936)
• Begum Rokeya (1880–1932)
• Benojir Ahmed (1903–1983)
• Bipradash Barua (b. 1940)

D

• Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–73)
• Datta, Haripada (b. 1947)
• Daulat Qazi (1600–1638)
• Dewan Mohammad Azraf (1908–1999)
• Dilara Hashim (b. 1936)

E

• Eyakub Ali Chowdhury (1888–1940)
• Ekhlasuddin Ahmed (b. 1940)

F

• Farrukh Ahmed

G

• Girish Chandra Sen (1835/36-1910)
• Gobindachandra Das (1885–1918)
• Golam Mostofa (poet) (1897–1964)
• Nirmalendu Goon

H

• Hasan Azizul Huq (b. 1939)
• Hasnat Abdul Hye (b. 1939)
• Humayun Ahmed (b. 1948)
• Humayun Azad (1947–2004)

I

• Imdadul Haq Milon (b. 1955)
• Ismail Hossain Siraji (1880–1931)

J

• Jagadish Gupta (1886–1957)
• Jahanara Imam (1929–1994)
• Jasimuddin
• Jatin Sarker (b. 1936)
• Jibanananda Das (1899–1954)

K

• Kazi Abdul Odud (1894–1970)
• Kazi Nazrul Islam (1898–1976)
• Khondakar Ashraf Hossain

L

• Lalon Shah (1774–1890)

M

• Mahbubul Alam (1898–1981)
• Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury (b. 1927)
• Mir Mosharraf Hossain
• Mohammad Barkatullah (1898–1974)
• Mohammad Lutfur Rahman (1889–1936)
• Mohammad Nurul Huda (b. 1949)
• Mohammad Rafiq (b. 1943)
• Moinul Ahsan Saber (b. 1958)
• Mokbula Manzoor (b. 1938)
• Motaher Hussain Chowdhury (1903–1956)
• Muhammad Mohar Ali (1932–2007)
• M. R. Akhtar Mukul (1929–2004)
• Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (1926–1971)
• Muhammad Habibur Rahman (b. 1935)
• Muhammad Shahidullah (1885–1969)
• Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (b. 1952)
• Munier Chowdhury (1925–1971)
• Muntasir Mamun

N

• Nurul Momen (Sobriquet:- Natyaguru) (1908–1990)
• Nasreen Jahan (b. 1964)
• Nilima Ibrahim (1921–2002)

P

Q

• Qazi Anwar Hussain
• Qazi Imdadul Haq
• Qazi Mahbub Hussain
• Qazi Motahar Hossain (1897–1981)
• Qazi Nazrul Islam

R

• Rabeya Khatun (b. 1935)
• Rafiq Azad
• Rahat Khan (b. 1940)
• Rajanikanta Sen (1865 - 1910)
• Rakib Hasan
• Rashid Askari (b.1965)
• Rashid Haider
• Rashid Karim (b. 1925)
• Razia Khan
• Rezauddin Stalin
• Rizia Rahman(b. 1939)
• Romena Afaz (1926 - 2003)
• Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (1956–1992)

S

• Salimullah Khan
• Sardar Fazlul Karim
• Sarder Jayenuddin (1918–1986)
• Selim Al-Deen (1949–2008)
• Selina Hossain (b. 1947)
• Sezan Mahmud (b. 1967)("NC 1988")
• Sen, Dinesh Chandra (1866–1939)
• Sen, Nabīn Chandra (1847–1909)
• Sen, Satyen (1907–81)
• Shah Muhammad Sagir (?)
• Shahadat Hussain (1893–1953)
• Shahed Ali (b. 1925)
• Shahid Akhand (b. 1935)
• Shahidul Zahir (1953–2008)
• Shahidullah Kaiser (1926–1971)
• Shahriyar Kabir
• Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926–97)
• Shamsunnahar Mahmud (1908–1964)
• Shamsur Rahman
• Shawkat Hussain
• Shaukat Osman (1917–98)
• Sheikh Fazlul Karim (1882–1936)
• Sirajul Islam Chowdhury
• Sufia Kamal (1911–99)
• Syed Ali Ahsan
• Syed Abul Maksud
• Syed Emdad Ali (1880–1956)
• Syed Manzoorul Islam
• Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–74)
• Syed Shamsul Haque (1934)
• Syed Sultan (1550–1648)
• Syed Waliullah (1922–71)
• Sumanto Aslam

T

• Tahmima Anam (b. 1975)
• Taslima Nasrin (b. 1962)

Z

• Zahir Raihan (1935–1972)

West Bengal

A

• Abul Bashar (b. 1951)

B

• Bāgchī, Jatīndra Mohan (1878–1948)
• Banaphul – nom-de-plume of Balāi Chānd Mukhopādhyāy
• Bandyopādhyāy, Atīn (b. 1934)
• Bandyopādhyāy, Bibhūti Bhūṣhaṇ (1894–1950)
• Bandyopādhyāy, Mānik (1908–56)
• Bandyopādhyāy, Śharadindu (1899–1970) (R 1967)
• Bandyopādhyāy, Tārāśhańkar (1898–1971)
• Bařāl, Akṣhay Kumār (1860–1919)
• Basu, Bāṇī (b. 1939)
• Basu, Buddhadeb (1908–74)
• Basu, Pratibhā (1915–2006)
• Basu, Rāj Śhekhar (1880–1960)
• Basu, Sarasibala (1886–1929)
• Bhaṭṭāchārya, Bijan (1917–78)
• Bhaṭṭāchārya, Sukānta (1926–47)

C

• Chakrabartī, Amiya
• Chakrabartī, Śhibrām (1902–80)
• Chaṭṭopādhyāy, Bańkim Chandra (1838–94)
• Chaṭṭopādhyāy, Mohit (b. 1934)
• Chaṭṭopādhyāy, Sandīpan
• Chaṭṭopādhyāy, Sañjīb
• Chaṭṭopādhyāy, Śhakti (1933–95)
• Chaṭṭopādhyāy, Śharat Chandra (1876–1938)
• Chaudhurī, Nīrad Chandra (1897–1999)
• Chaudhurī, Pramatha (1868–1946)

D

• Dās, Dineśh (1913–85)
• Datta, Satyendranāth (1882–1922)
• Datta, Sudhīndranāth (1901–60)
• Datta, Utpal
• De, Biṣhṇu (1909–82)
• Debnāth, Nārāyaṇ (b. 1926)
• Deb-Sen, Nabanītā (b. 1938)
• Devī, Āśhāpūrṇā (1909–95)
• Devī, Mahāśhwetā (b. 1926)
• Devī, Swarṇakumārī (1855–1931)
• Devi, Nirupama (1883-1951)
• Dasgupta, Dhiman (b.1970)

E

• Ekram Ali (b. 1950)

G

• Gańgopādhyāy, Nārāyaṇ (1918–70)
• Gańgopādhyāy, Sunīl (b. 1934)
• Ghoṣh, Giriśh Chandra (1844–1912)
• Ghařāi, Anil (b. 1957)
• Ghoṣh, Śhańkha
• Ghoṣh, Subodh (1909–80)
• Goswāmī, Jay (b. 1954)
• Guha, Buddhadeb (b. 1936)
• Gupta, Īśhwar Chandra
• Gupta, Jagadīśh
• Gupta, Nīhār Rañjan (1911–86)

K

• Kar, Bimal (b. 1921)
• Khan, Moniruddin (b. 1974)
• Kumar, Swapan (original name Samarendra Nath Pandey, 1927 - 2001) (biographical details in Anandabazar Patrika, 28.03.2015)

L

M

• Majumdār, Amiya Bhūṣhaṇ(1918–2001)
• Majumdār, Binay (1934–2006)
• Majumdār, Līlā (1908–2007)
• Majumdār, Mohit Lāl
• Majumdār, Samareśh (b. 1944)
• Mallik, Kumud Rañjan (1883–1970)
• Mitra, Aruṇ (1909–2000)
• Mitra, Bimal (1912–91)
• Mitra, Narendranāth (1916–75)
• Mitra, Premendra (1904–88)
• Mitra Majumdār, Dakṣhiṇā Rañjan (1877–1957)
• Mukhopādhyāy, Āśhutoṣh (1920–89)
• Mukhopādhyāy, Balāi Chānd (1899–1979)
• Mukhopādhyāy, Bibhūti Bhūṣhaṇ (1894–1987)
• Mukhopādhyāy, Maṇi Śhańkar
• Mukhopādhyāy, Prabhāt Kumār
• Mukhopādhyāy, Śhīrṣhendu (b. 1935)
• Mukhopādhyāy, Subhāṣh (1919–2003)
• Mukhopādhyāy, Trailokyanāth

N

• Nandī, Mati
• Nigamananda Saraswati Dev (1880–1935)

O

• Ojhā, Kṛittibās (1443-15??)

P

• Pālit, Dibyendu (b. 1939)
• Ghosh, Prabir (b. 1945)

R

• Rājguru, Śhaktipada (b. 1922)
• Rāy, Annadā Śhańkar (1904–2002)
• Rāy, Bhārat Chandra
• Rāy, Dwijendralāl (1863–1913)
• Rāy, Hemendra Kumār (1888–1963)
• Rāy, Kālidās (1889–1975)
• Rāy, Kāminī
• Samir Roychoudhury (1933)
• Malay Roy Choudhury (1939–)
• Rāy, Satyajit (1921–92)
• Rāy, Sukumār (1887–1923)
• Rāy, Tārāpada (b. 1936)
• Rāy Chaudhurī, Upendra Kiśhor (1863–1915)

S

• Sānyāl, Nārāyan (1924–2005)
• Sarkar, Prabhat Rainjan (1921–1990)
• Sukumar Roy
• Sen, Sukumār (1900–92)
• Sengupta, Achintya Kumār (1903–76)
• Sengupta, Jatīndranāth
• Sengupta, Śhachīn (1891–1961)
• Sheikh Wajed Ali
• Syed Kawsar Jamal (b. 1950)
• Syed Mustafa Siraj (b. 1930)

T

• Ṭhākur, Abanīndranāth (1871–1951)
• Ṭhākur, Rabīndranāth (1861–1941)

V

• Vidyāsāgar, Īśhwar Chandra (1820–91)
• Vivekānanda, Swāmī (1863–1902)
• Vattacharja Chandan (1944– )