Bishnu Dey

Bishnu Dey was born on 18 July 1909 in north Calcutta, the fifth of seven children. Educated at the Mitra Institution, the Sanskrit Collegiate School and St. Paul's College, with a master of arts in English from the University of Calcutta, he taught English literature at Ripon College, Presidency College, Maulana Azad College and in Krishnanagar. Close to the Kallol group and later a Marxist, a friend of the painter Jamini Roy, he wrote on art, founded a literary magazine in 1948 and received the Nehru Prize in 1967. He died in Calcutta on 3 December 1982.

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• Poetryস্মৃতি সত্তা ভবিষ্যৎBishnu Dey · 1963Literature