Uddam Rajanir Kabya

Could a novel be written in this way in Bengali? This novel has expanded into verse, not prose. Which makes the author unique. On the other hand, the subject matter is also interesting. Greece and Ashokaban have built a new suburb in the oak forest. Homer and Vedas and Valmiki are aiming at a young woman with a drinking glass in their hands. Who is that woman? Sitting in a cafeteria, she is writing a thesis. Is she the mistress of a Greek general? Or is she running away with a black-haired slave wearing a chastity belt. In this novel, myth is mixed with the current melancholy of people. This is not a brother-in-law's tale. Here, three continents are like a confluence of waters inside a boat. Divided into six heavens and six cantos, this novel is the epicenter of the six seasons, whose real name is love. This novel reveals a new side to what subject and in what form.

Subodh Sarkar

Subodh Sarkar was born on October 28, 1958, in Krishnanagar. He is the son of a refugee family. His father died when he was a student of class eight. Professor of English language and literature, teaches at City College. He has read poetry in America, France, Germany, Greece, Russia, Taiwan, Istanbul. He has edited the magazine 'Bhashanagar' with his wife, the late poet Mallika Sengupta. Editor: 'Indian Literature', the English journal of the Sahitya Akademi, Delhi. He has received the Sahitya Akademi Award (2013), the Paschimshakti Chattopadhyay Award and the Bangla Akademi Award. He has also received the Gangadhar Meher National Award from Sambalpur University for poetry and honorary D.Litt from Gaurbang University and Vidyasagar University. In 2016, he taught at the University of Iowa in the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship and participated in an international writers' camp with poets and writers from 33 countries. He lives in Siriti, Kolkata with his son Roro. He is the first president of the West Bengal Poetry Academy.