Introduction
Manish Ghatak (1902–1979) was a Bengali poet and novelist. He was a littérateur of the Kallol era and used to write under pen name Jubanashwa.
Personal life
Manish Ghatak's parents were Suresh Chandra Ghatak and Indubala Devi. Noted Bengali film director Ritwik Ghatak was his youngest brother. Ghatak married Dharitri Devi, who was from the well known Chaudhuri family in Dhaka, in undivided Bengal, with Sankho Chaudhuri, the noted sculptor and Sachin Chaudhuri, the founder-editor of the Economic and Political Weekly of India, being her siblings. Mahasweta Devi is their eldest daughter. His eldest grandson, Mahasweta Devi's son, Nabarun Bhattacharya was also a very well-known writer.
Contribution
Ghatak is known as one of the pioneers of the neo-realist era of Bengali literature called the Kallol era, named after a leading literary magazine that was associated with this genre. Other noted writers associated with the Kallol era were Premendra Mitra, Achintyakumar Sengupta, Buddhadeb Basu, and Kazi Nazrul Islam.
Books
- Pataldangar Panchali (a book of short stories)
- Kankhal (novel)
- Shilalipi (book of poem)
- Sandhya (book of poem)