Sukumar Ray

Sukumar Ray ( Bengali: সুকুমার রায়, Sukumar Ray, born October 30, 1887 in Kolkata, † September 10, 1923 ) was a Bengali Indian children author, illustrator and publisher. He is best known as a poet of Bengali nonsense verses.

Biography

Sukumar Ray was born as the son of children's author Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri. He grew up in close contact to the educated elite of the outgoing Bengal Renaissance, and his father was a friend of Rabindranath Thakur, Jagadish Chandra Bose and Prafulla Chandra Roy. At the age of eight, he wrote his first poem Nadi; his second Tick, Tick, Tock published his father in 1896 in the children's magazine Mukul. Upendrakishore started a business as a block maker ( sketch pads, etc.) under the name of M / s U. Ray & Sons, in Sukumar and his brother Subinay learned the craft.

1906 graduated Sukumar Ray " with honors " in Physics and Chemistry from the Presidency College in Kolkata. During his studies he focused on drama and humorous poems. He went in 1911 to England, where he studied photography and printing technology and one of the first Indian was that dealt with photography and lithography. From this work out, he worked also as an illustrator. During his time in England, his father expanded the printing and publishing business and began publishing the children's magazine Sandesh. A few months after Sukumar's return from England in 1914, his father died and he took over the business and the publication of the magazine together with his younger brother.

He gave several volumes of nonsense poems and nursery rhymes out in Bengali language with his own illustrations, which are difficult to transfer into other languages ​​without losing their surreal imagery. His latest, published a few days before his death Abol Tabol work is his most famous and is still one of the most popular works of Bengali children's literature.

Sukumar Ray died from a severe leishmaniasis infection, the already bound him to a wheelchair for several years. 1987, on the occasion of his 100th birthday turned his only son, the film director Satyajit Ray, a documentary about him.

Works

  • Abol tabol
  • Pagla Dashu
  • Khai - Khai
  • Heshoram Hushiyarer Diary
  • HaJaBaRaLa
  • Jhalapala O Onanyo Natok
  • Lakkhaner Shoktishel
  • Chalachittachanchari
  • Shabdakalpadrum
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