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Shamik Ghosh

b. 1983, born Kolkata, writes in Bangla, writer

Shamik Ghosh is an Indian author writing in Bengali. He has won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2017 in Bengali for his debut short story collection “Elvis O Amolasundari” His shorty 'Half Timer Pawre' from the collection was selected by Hervill Secker, an imprint of Vintage, Penguin Random House, U.K for the Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize 2018. The story was published in Granta online He has been awarded the Ila Chanda Smriti Puraskar by the oldest literary Institution of India, Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. and Somen Chanda Smriti Smarok by West Bengal Bengali Academy in 2019.

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Awards

2017Yuva Puraskar
Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali

Elsewhere

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Also writing in Bangla

Shankha Ghosh

1932–2021Bengali poet, literary critic and educator (1932-2021)