Subrata Kumar Das
Subrata Kumar Das, a writer, curator, and organizer migrated from Bangladesh to Canada in 2013. A member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada, Subrata has contributed enormously to creating a bridge between Canadian Bengali writers and the Canadian Mainstream writing community.
A recipient of Nalanda Best Canadian Bengali Author Award in 2023, and Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Award in 2018, Subrata was shortlisted for Best Canadian Immigrant Award in 2021.
Subrata has 29 books to his credit and a record of joining the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for three years.
Books by Subrata Kumar Das
Aamar Mahabharata
Alochana Samalochana
Canadiya Sahityo
Kazi Nazrul Islam: Selected Prose
Korokdi Ekti Gram
Nazrul Biksha
Ogrothito Mozaffar Hossain
Rabindranath: Ingreji Shekhano
Rabindranath: Kom Jana Ojana
Sekaler Bangla Samoyikpotre Japan
SriChaitanyaDev
Articles by Subrata Kumar Das
Titans at the early CanLit Boom
When we are at the verge of the third decade of the twenty first century, and watching about more than ten thousand books getting published every year in Canada, it seems somewhat unbelievable that during the fifties of the last century the picture of Canadian book publishing world was very grieving. Later on, the situation changed and the changes were mostly felt in the literary arena.
Voices from Canadian Bengali Literati: A Snapshot
Toronto is one of the major cities of the North America where thousands of Bengalis live in. From Bengali populace point of view, Toronto is most probably second to New York in the North American zone. Like the Bengalis of NY, Torontonian Bengalis do have vibrant community activities among which literary initiatives are also worth mentioning.
A Decade with Dr. Dilip Chakraborty
In the year 2014, when I first met Dr. Dilip Chakraborty, he was only 77. I was then completing my 50th and it was my maiden year in Canada. Every week I would get opportunities to meet many new people, and successfully utilise my time in networking with them. One day Sujit Kusum Paul, who was by then not yet recognised as a Yeats scholar,
An Immigrant’s Quest for CanLit
To an immigrant Canadian, it is really a very tough question ‘Which are the best novels in Canadian Literature’ or ‘Who are the most celebrated poets of the country?’ or ‘Who are the most loved Canadian memoirists?’ or ‘Which playwrights overwhelmed the nation?’ Is it at all easy to reply for an immigrant ‘Which are the frequently uttered poetic lines written in the Canadian soil?’
Salma Bani’s ‘Immigration’ sketches Canadian Diaspora life
I had heard the name of the fiction writer Salma Bani (b. 1962) much before I left Dhaka for Toronto in August 2013. Though during my Dhaka days, possibly unfortunately I did never come across any of Bani’s (Salma is mostly known as Bani than by her first name) books, I considered myself really fortunate when in Toronto a book of hers came on my hand.
‘Sapratibha’: A debut Novel by an Octogenarian
Dr. Dilip Chakraborty, a Bengali living in Brampton of Ontario of Canada, has earned much fame among the expatriate Bengali community for his unparallel zeal, extraordinary knowledge and enthusiastic involvement. An outstanding orator, Dilip, who was born in 1937 in Madaripur of Bangladesh, did his higher education in India and had taught English literature for decades.
Reading on Canada in Bengali
Subrata Kumar Das How is to about the history of Canada? How are its systems and practices? How are the…