Shankha Ghosh

Shankha Ghosh (Bengali: শঙ্খ ঘোষ ; born 6 February 1932) is a Bengali Indian poetand critic. He was born in Chandpur of what is now Bangladesh. Shankha Ghosh is regarded a leading authority on Rabindranath Tagore in addition to being one of the most prolific writers in Bengali.

Ghosh got his undergraduate degree in Arts in Bengali language from the Presidency College, Kolkata in 1951 and subsequently his master's degree from the University of Calcutta. He taught at many educational institutions, including Bangabasi College, City College (all affiliated to the University of Calcutta) and at Jadavpur University, all in Kolkata. He retired from Jadavpur University in 1992. He joined the Iowa Writer's Workshop in the 1960s. He has also taught at Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies at Shimla, and at the Visva-Bharati University. He has won a number of prestigious awards, the most recent being Jnanpith Award.

• Adim lata-gulmomay (Ancient vines and trees)
• Murkha baro, samajik nay (Big fool, not social)
• Kabir abhipray (The poet's intention)
• Mukh dheke jay bigyapane (Faces are hidden by advertisements)
• Babarer prarthana (Babur's prayer)
• The Storm of Desire (a poem translated from Bengali by Nandini Gupta)
• Just this one (a poem translated from Bengali by Bhismadev Chakrabarti)

• Narsingh Das Puraskar (1977, for Murkha baro, samajik nay)
• Sahitya Akademi Award (1977, for Baabarer praarthanaa)
• Rabindra Puraskar (1989, for Dhum legechhe hrit kamale)
• Saraswati Samman for his anthology Gandharba Kabitaguccha
• Sahitya Akademi Award for translation of Taledanda (Kannada) Play into Bengali named Raktakalyan (1999)
• Desikottam by Visva-Bharati (1999)
• D.Litt by Vidyasagar University (2010)
• Padma Bhushan by the Government of India (2011)
• Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement "Sahityabrahma" Award by the World Forum for Journalists and Writers (WFJW) (2015)
• D.Litt by Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India (2015)

• Jnanpith Award by the Government of India (2016)

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