Arunabh Sarkar | |
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Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Occupation(s) | Writer, poet, journalist |
Arunabh Sarkar (Bengali: অরুণাভ সরকার; born 29 May 1941) is a Bangladeshi poet, columnist, literary editor, and freedom fighter.[1] He was born in Tangail, Bangladesh. He received the 2009 Bangla Academy Literary Award for poetry,[2] Arunabh also received the Tangail Sahitya Sangsad Poetry Award for 2007.[3] He has published three collection of poems : Nagare Baul, Keu Kichhui Jane Na, and Narira Fere Na. Sarkar also edited the poetry magazine Eshika from 1969 to 1985 [3] and has been a journalist for some 40 years. He died on 18 December 2014.[4]