Bankim Puraskar

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Bankim Puraskar (Bengali: বঙ্কিম পুরস্কার, Bankim Memorial Award) is the highest award given by the Government of West Bengal for contribution to Bengali fiction. The award was instituted in 1975 in memory of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the founder of the Bengali novel. It has been brought under the aegis of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi, functioning under the Department of Information & Cultural Affairs, in 2003. The award is handed over by the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

Awardees

1975 – Prabodh Chandra Sen

1982 – Gour Kishore Ghosh

1983 – Sunil Gangopadhyay – Sei Samay (novel, 2 vols.)

1984 – Sushil Jana

1985 – Prafulla Ray – Akasher Neeche Manush (novel)

1986 – Amiya Bhushan Majumdar – Rajnagar (novel)

1987 – Amalendu Chakraborty – Jabajjiban (novel)

1988 – Sachindranath Bandyopadhyay

1990 – Dibyendu Palit

1991 – Kamal Kumar Majumdar – Galpasamagra (complete stories) (posthumous)

1992 – Abhijit Sen – Rahu Chandaler Harh (novel)

1994 – Syed Mustafa Siraj – Aleek Manush (novel)

1995 – Manjush Dasgupta, Sandipan Chattopadhyay

1996 – Nabarun Bhattacharya – Harbart (novel) (award returned in 2007 in protest against the Nandigram violence)

1998 – Atin Bandyopadhyay – Dui Bharatbarsha (novel)

........ – Bani Basu

2000 – Narayan Sanyal – Rupamanjari (3 vols) (novel)

2001 – Samir Rakshit-Dukher Akhyan (Novel) , Amar Mitra – Ashwacharit (novel)

2002 – Chitta Ghoshal – Nirbachita Galpo vol. 2 (selected stories)

........ – Tapan Bandyopadhyay – Nadi, Mati, Aranya (3 vols.)

2005 – Sadhan Chattopadhyay

........ – Nabendu Ghosh – Chand Dekhechhilo (novel)

........ – Swapnamoy Chakrabarti – Abantinagar (novel)

2006 – Jhareswar Chattopadhyay

....... – Ramkumar Mukhapadhyay

2008 – Nalini Bera

2010 – Anil Gharai – Ananta Draghima (Study on the use of colors in the works and paintings of Rabindranath Tagore)

2011 – Rabi Shankar Bal – Dozakhnama (novel)

2012 – Kamal Chakraborty

2014 – Ramanath Roy

References

Bankim Puraskar Wikipedia

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