Nirendranath Chakravarty or Chakroborty (Bengali pronunciation:[/niɾend̪ɾonat̪ʰ/]; 19 October 1924 – 25 December 2018) was an Indian Bengali poet, novelist, and essayist.[1][2] He's known for use of expressive clarity and sharp diction in his poems.[1] He taught Bengali poetics in books like Kobitar Class, and created the fictional detective Mr. Bhaduri. In addition, he translated Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin in Bengali. He was long time editor of Anandamela, a children's magazine.[1] In 1974, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for the poetry collection Ulanga Raja.[3][4][5][6]
His best-known poems include Ulanga Raja (The Naked King), Kolkatar Jishu (The Jesus of Kolkata), and Kolghore Chiler Kanna (A Hawk’s Wailing in the Bathroom). According to Subodh Sarkar in Desh, Ulanga Raja has entered the collective memory of Bengalis, alongside Tagore’s "Africa" and Kazi Nazrul Islam's "Bidrohi" ("The Rebel").[7] He lived in Bangur Avenue, Kolkata.
Biography
Nirendranath Chakraborty receiving Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award 2012 (Kolkata, 2014)
He was born in Faridpur district of undivided Bengal in 1924. After graduating from the University of Calcutta, he started journalism in the daily "Raiyah". He won the Sahitya Academy Award in 1974 for the book of poems Ulanga Raja (The Naked King). In 2007, the University of Calcutta awarded him an honorary Doctor of Literature degree. He participated in the Festival of India in France and the USSR for literature translation.[8] Nirendranath wrote several detective novels with Bhaduri Moshai as the central character and participated in the International Conference of Poets in Liege in 1990.[9] He was the president of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi.
Nirendranath had long suffered from age-related ailments,[10] including respiratory issues. On 25 December 2018, at 12:25 p.m.,[11] he died following a cardiac arrest[12] at a private hospital in Mukundapur. He was 94.[13][14]
