Alokeranjan Dasgupta
Alokeranjan Dasgupta ( born October 6, 1933, Calcutta) is an Indian poet and literary scholar. He is considered one of the most important poets of the Bengali language. In addition to numerous volumes of poetry he published literary essays and translated works of German authors into Bengali and Bengali poet works into German.
Life
Alokeranjan Dasgupta attended the school founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan. He then studied at St. Xavier 's College and Presidency College in Kolkata and at the University of Calcutta. From 1957 he taught comparative literature at Jadavpur University and Bengalistik in Calcutta. In 1971 he received a scholarship from the Alexander -von- Humboldt Foundation and subsequently taught until 1994 as a visiting professor at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University.
Literary creation
Became known Alokeranjan Dasgupta through the book of poems Joubanbaul ( wandering minstrels of youth ), which appeared in 1959. It was followed until today, more than 30 other books of poetry written in Bengali. Dasgupta has shaped the modern Bengali poetry crucial. In his poems he connects earthly and transcendent, personal and political, prosaic and poetic. He has the Bengali language opens up new possibilities of expression and greatly enriched the Indian contemporary literature through original neologisms, surprising rhymes and semantic links.