Shankha Ghosh
1932–2021Bengali poet, literary critic and educator (1932-2021)
film director (1923–2018)
Mrinal Sen
1923–2018, born Faridpur, writes in Bangla, Hindi, English, writer, autobiographer
Mrinal Sen was an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and a few Hindi and Telugu language films. Regarded as one of the finest Indian filmmakers, along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Tapan Sinha, Sen played a major role in India’s parallel cinema movement, which offered a realistic, socially aware counterpoint to splashy Bollywood films, as well as in the country’s New Wave cinema. He also served as the President of FTII from 1984 to 1986.
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On Open Library
Montage2002
Always being born2004
Global optimization methods in geophysical inversion1995
Global Optimization Methods in Geophysical Inversion2018
The absence trilogy1999Editions Open Library lists under this name; a namesake may slip in.
Elsewhere
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Also writing in Bangla
Annada Shankar Ray
1905–2002writer, poet, essayist (1905-2002)
Sunil Gangopadhyay
1934–2012Award-winning and bestselling Bengali poet and author (1934-2012)
Satyajit Ray
1921–1992filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
1894–1950Bengali author (1894–1950)
Alokranjan Dasgupta
1933–2020Bengali poet (1933-2020)