Annadashankar Roy

Annadashankar Roy ( _bn. অন্নদাশংকর রায়) (May 15, 1905 - October 28, 2002), was a renowned Bengali author. He was born in Dhenkanal in Orissa, India. [cite web | title= Annadashankar Roy on www.southasianmedia.net|url=http://www.southasianmedia.net/profile/Bangladesh/bangladesh_lp_literature.cfm#18h| accessmonthday=october 24 | accessyear=2006]

Life

Passed B.A. (Honors) in English from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Orissa. Started his literary career in Oriya. He was a poet of Sabuja Yuga in Oriya Literature. Later he shifted his writing to Bengali. Annadashankar Roy was the first "native" Indian in British India to stand first in the I. C. S. examination, an achievement that is history and had excited thousands of patriotic natives at that time.

He married an American pianist called Alice Virginia Orndorf. After marriage Alice Virginia took the name Leela Roy.

Works

Annadashankar Roy was a contributor of both prose and poetry.

His literary works were included in the curriculum of school level, secondary, higher secondary and graduation level Bengali Literature in Bangladesh.

Novels

* Satyasatya (6 Novels)
*# Jar Jetha Desh
*# Oggatobash
*# Kolonkoboti
*# Dukkhomochon
*# Morter Sorgo
*# Oposaron

* Agun Niye Khela
* Osomapika
* Putul Niye Khela
* Na
* Konna

Essays

* Tarunno
* Amra
* Jibonshilpi
* Eahara
* Jiyonkathi
* Deshkalpatro
* Prottoy
* Notun Kore Bacha
* Adhunikota

Autobiography

* Binur Boi
* Potheprobashe

hort Story Collections

* Prokritir Porihash
* Du Kan Kata
* Hason Sakhi
* Mon Pahon
* Jouban Jala
* Kamini Kanchon
* Ruper Day
* Golpo

References

* Golpo Songroho (Collected Stories), the national text book of B.A. (pass and subsidiary) course of Bangladesh, published by University of Dhaka in 1979 (reprint in 1986).
* Bangla Sahitya (Bengali Literature), the national text book of intermediate (college) level of Bangladesh published in 1996 by all educational boards.