Language Bengali Spouse Pranati Bhattacharya | Role Writer Name Nabarun Bhattacharya Children Tathagata Bhattacharya | |
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Occupation writer, editor, theater activist Notable works Herbert (1994), "Andho Biral", "Fyataru" Movies Kangal Malsat, Mahanagar@Kolkata, Terrorist Parents Bijon Bhattacharya, Mahasweta Devi Similar People Bijon Bhattacharya, Suman Mukhopadhyay, Mahasweta Devi, Kabir Suman, Arin Paul | ||
An exclusive conversation with nabarun bhattacharya
Nabarun Bhattacharya (23 June 1948 – 31 July 2014) was an Indian Bengali writer who was committed to a revolutionary and radical aesthetics. He was born at Baharampur (Berhampur), West Bengal. He was the only child of actor, playwright Bijon Bhattacharya and writer, activist Mahashweta Devi. His maternal grandfather was the well-known writer from the Kallol era, Manish Ghatak.
Contents
- An exclusive conversation with nabarun bhattacharya
- Nabarun Bhattacharya Rare Speech Interview Fyataru
- Personal life
- Works
- The characters called Fyataru
- Major works
- Death
- References
His novel, Herbert (1993), which was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, and adapted into a film of the same name in 2005, by Suman Mukhopadhyay.
Nabarun Bhattacharya | নবারুণ ভট্টাচার্য | Rare Speech | Interview | Fyataru
Personal life
He studied in Kolkata, first Geology, then English, from Calcutta University. Nabarun married with Pranati Bhattacharya, was professor of political science. Their only child Tathagata is a Delhi-based journalists.
In an interview, Nabarun had said that once he used to be a hardline communist but was no longer so. In response to a question regarding what he thought to be the most prominent ideological change in him, he said "I am no longer anthropocentric".
Works
Aside from fiction, he has also written poetry, of which Ei Mrityu Upotyoka Aaamaar Desh Na (This Valley of Death Is Not My Country) is an example.
The characters called Fyataru
His magic realist writings introduced a strange set of human beings to Bengali readers, called Faytaru (fyat: the sound created by kites while they are flown; otherwise, fyat has also a hint of someone worthless, deriving from the words foto, faaltu; uru: related to flying), who are an anarchic underclass fond of sabotage and are capable of flying whenever they utter the mantra 'fyat fyat sh(n)aai sh(n)aai' (This mantra was made into a song by the popular Bangla band Chandrabindoo in one of its albums). They appear in his books Mausoleum, Kaangaal Maalshaat, Fatarur Bombachaak, Fyatarur Kumbhipaak and Mobloge Novel. Suman Mukhopadhyay, who was basically from a theatrical background, dramatized Kaangaal Maalshaat.
Major works
Death
Nabarun Bhattacharya died of intestinal cancer at Thakurpukur cancer hospital, Kolkata on 31 July 2014.