Interview by DDAgartala Part -3

Shyamal Bhattacharya, born in Agartala (1964), holds a graduate degree in Library Science, Masters degrees in Hindi and Public Administration and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism.

Besides Bengali he knows Hindi, English, Punjabi, Dogri and Rajasthani.

He started his career with Indian Air Force as Aircraft Controller (1981- 2001) and later served the ICFAI University as Academic Monitoring Coordinator (2004 – 2010) and Adamas Institute of Management for brief period.

Thereafter he shouldered the responsibility of Assistant Editor in Sakalbela, a Bengali daily till April 2013. He is an eminent author of Bengali Literature and a linguist of repute. His early translations include the poetry of JugalParihar from Rajasthani into Bengali, short stories of Amrita Pritam, Kartar Singh Duggal, OmprakashGaso, RamsarupAnakhi and 42 others from Punjabi into Bengali and short stories of VedRahi from Dogri into Bengali.

Some of his important indigenous works include novels like Bukhari and LodravarKachakachi; short story collections like ChilteDaag, FulmotirBasantkal, Jamichalang, Aakashe Orar Galpo, Bharong Pakhir Naach etc. Recipient of honours by  Punjabi Lekhak Akademi, Jallandhar, (2000); Punjabi Sahitya Sabha, Sangrur, (2000); Triveni Sahitya Akademi, Jallandar (2000); Viswakarma Literary Society, (2000); Tripura Prabha Honour (2007), Sutapa Roy Chowdhuri Award by Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi (2010), Amrita Pritam Samman (2015), Siromani Sahityakar Samman, Udaypur, Rajasthan ( 2016), Tathagata Srijan Samman, Siddharthanagar, U.P. ( 2016), Jahangirnagar University, Ganobiswabidyalaya and Dhaka University of Bangladesh(2016) as well as the Sahitya Akademi Translation Award (2010).

He represented country at Beijing International Book fair in 2010.

Selected Bibliography:

Novel: Bukhari (1997, 2002, 2006); Lodravar Kachakachi (2008); Banchchakalpataru (2017).

Bukhari (in Hindi) (2002, 2006, 2015).

Short Fiction: Chilte Daag (1981); Fulmotir Basantkal (1994); Jamichalang (1999), Jamichlang (in Hindi) 2006; Aakashe Orar Galpo (2006); Bharong Pakhir Nach (2008). Paisley ( in English, 2007).

Translations: Samakalin Punjabi Galpo (2002, 2008)(Akhshar Publications).

Dharma Juddha (2011); Aay Re (2014) & Kumari Harinir Chokh (2007),

(Sahitya Akademi)

Kon Bhore Bonchka Khuli (2014) (NBT)

Other Books: Tripurar Galpo o Galpokar (1999)( Ubudosh); Prasanga Biofelia (2011)( Srot); Path-Pratikriya (2012)( Tripura Bani); Tripuray Bangla Sahitya (2016)( Srot).

Biography: Barun-60- An aesthetic journey(2016)( Colourland Art Academy).

Children Literature: Chhoy Ponar Kando (2014, 2016) ( Srot)