List of Bengali-language authors (alphabetical)

Template:Short description Template:Template other Template:Refimprove This article provides an alphabetical list of Bengali language authors. For a chronological list, see List of Bengali language authors.

Pre-partition Bengal

A

• Abdul Hakim (1620–1690)
• Afzal Ali (16th-century)
• Alaol (1606–1680)
• Akkhoykumar Boral (1860–1919)

B

• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94)
• Bharatchandra Ray (1712–60)
• Begum Rokeya (1880–1932)

D

• Daulat Qazi (1600–1638)
• Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan (16th-century)
• Dinesh Chandra Sen (1866–1939)
• Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913)

E

• Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940)
• Eyakub Ali Chowdhury (1888–1940)

G

• Girish Chandra Ghosh (1844–1912)
• Girish Chandra Sen (1835/36-1910)
• Gobindachandra Das (1885–1918)

H

• Heyat Mahmud (1693–1760)

I

• Ismail Hossain Siraji (1880–1931)
• Ishwar Chandra Gupta (1812–59)
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–91)

K

• Krittibas Ojha (1443-15??)

M

• Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–73)
• Mohammad Lutfur Rahman (1889–1936)
• Muhammad Muqim (18th-century)

N

• Nabinchandra Sen (1847–1909)
• Nabinkali Devi (fl. 1886)
• Nur Qutb Alam (died 1416)

P

• Pramatha Chowdhury (1868–1946)
• Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay (1873–1932)

R

• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
• Rahimunnessa (1763–1800)
• Rajanikanta Sen (1865–1910)

S

• Sarasibala Basu (1886–1929)
• Satyendranath Dutta (1882–1922)
• Satyendranath Tagore (1842–1923)
• Shah Muhammad Saghir (14th-century)
• Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938)
• Sheikh Fazlul Karim (1882–1936)
• Sukumar Ray (1887–1923)
• Swami Nigamananda (1880–1935)
• Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)
• Swarnakumari Devi, (1855–1932)
• Syed Sultan (1550–1648)

T

• Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919)

U

• Upendrakishore Ray (1863–1915)

Z

• Zainuddin (15th-century)

West Bengal

A

• Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951)
• Abul Bashar (b. 1951)
• Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–76)
• Amiya Bhushan Majumdar (1918–2001)
• Amiya Chakravarty (1901–86)
• Anil Ghorai (b. 1957)
• Annadashankar Roy (1904–2002)
• Arun Mitra (1909–2000)
• Ashapoorna Devi (1909–95)
• Ashutosh Mukherjee (1920–89)
• Atin Bandyopadhyay (1934–2019)

B

• Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay (1899–1979)
• Bani Basu (b. 1939)
• Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950)
• Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (1894–1987)
• Bijon Bhattacharya (1917–78)
• Bimal Kar (1921–2002)
• Bimal Mitra (1912–91)
• Binoy Majumdar (1934–2006)
• Bishnu Dey (1909–82)
• Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–74)
• Buddhadeb Guha (b. 1936)

D

• Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1877–1957)
• Dibyendu Palit (b. 1939)
• Dinesh Das (1913–85)

E

• Ekram Ali (b. 1950)

H

• Hemendrakumar Roy (1888–1963)

J

• Jagadish Gupta (1886–1957)
• Jatindramohan Bagchi (1878–1948)
• Jatindranath Sengupta (1880–1954)
• Jibanananda Das (1899–1954)
• Joy Goswami (b. 1954)

K

• Kalidas Roy (1889–1975)
• Kamal Kumar Majumdar (1914–79)
• Kamini Roy (1864–1933)
• Kumud Ranjan Mullick (1883–1970)

L

• Leela Majumdar (1908–2007)

M

• Mahasweta Devi (b. 1926)
• Malay Roy Choudhury (b. 1939)
• Mani Shankar Mukherjee (b. 1933)
• Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–56)
• Mohit Chattopadhyay (b. 1934)
• Moniruddin Khan (b. 1974)
• Moti Nandi (1931–2010)
• Mohitolal Majumdar (1888–1952)
• Maniklal Sinha (1916–1994)

N

• Nabanita Dev Sen (b. 1938)
• Nabarun Bhattacharya(1948–2014)
• Narayan Debnath (b. 1926)
• Narayan Gangopadhyay (1918–70)
• Narayan Sanyal (1924–2005)
• Narendranath Mitra (1916–75)
• Nihar Ranjan Gupta (1911–86)
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999)
• Nirupama Devi (1883–1951)

P

• Prabir Ghosh (b. 1945)
• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921–1990)
• Premendra Mitra (1904–88)
• Priyanath Mukhopadhyay (1855–1947)
• Protiva Bose (1915–2006)

R

• Rajsekhar Bose (1880–1960)

S

• Sachin Sengupta (1891–1961)
• Samaresh Majumdar (b. 1944)
• Samir Roychoudhury (b. 1933)
• Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005)
• Sanjib Chattopadhyay (b. 1936)
• Satyajit Ray (1921–92)
• Shamik Ghosh (b. 1983)
• Shankha Ghosh (1932–2021)
• Shakti Chattopadhyay (1933–95)
• Shaktipada Rajguru (b. 1922)
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (1899–1970)
• Shibram Chakraborty (1902–80)
• Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (b. 1935)
• Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003)
• Subodh Ghosh (1909–80)
• Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960)
• Sudhir Chakravarti (1934–2020)
• Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926–47)
• Sukumar Sen (1900–92)
• Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012)
• Syed Kawsar Jamal (b. 1950)
• Syed Mustafa Siraj (b. 1930)

T

• Tarapada Roy (b. 1936)
• Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya (1898–1971)

U

• Utpal Dutt (1929–93)

Bangladesh

A

• Abdullah Abu Sayeed (b. 1939)
• Abdullah-Al-Muti (1930–1998)
• Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (b. 1934)
• Abdul Mannan Syed (b. 1943)
• Abdul Kadir (1906–84)
• Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1869–1953)
• Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1929–1996)
• Abu Ishaque (1926–2003)
• Abu Rushd
• Abubakar Siddique (b. 1936)
• Abujafar Shamsuddin (1911–89)
• Abul Kashem (1920–1991)
• Abul Mansur Ahmed (1898–1979)
• Ahmed Sharif (1921–1999)
• Ahmed Sofa (1943–2001)
• Ahsan Habib (1917–1985)
• Ahsan Habib (cartoonist)
• Akhteruzzaman Elias (1943–97)
• Akbar Hossain (1917–1981)
• Alauddin Al-Azad (b. 1932)
• Al Mahmud
• Ali Imam
• Anwar Pasha (1928–1971)
• Anisul Hoque (b. 1965)
• Aroj Ali Matubbar
• Asad Chowdhury
• A. T. M. Shamsuddin

B

• Baby Halder (b. 1973)
• Bande Ali Mia (1906–82)
• Bashir Al Helal (b. 1936)
• Benojir Ahmed (1903–1983)
• Bipradash Barua (b. 1940)

D

• Datta, Haripada (b. 1947)
• Dewan Mohammad Azraf (1908–1999)
• Dilara Hashem (b. 1936)

E

• Ekhlasuddin Ahmed (b. 1940)

F

• Farrukh Ahmed

G

• Golam Mostofa (1897–1964)
• Nirmalendu Goon

H

• Hasan Azizul Huq (b. 1939)
• Hasnat Abdul Hye (b. 1939)
• Humayun Ahmed (b. 1948)
• Humayun Azad (1947–2004)

I

• Imdadul Haq Milon (b. 1955)

J

• Jagadish Gupta (1886–1957)
• Jahanara Imam (1929–1994)
• Jasimuddin
• Jatin Sarker (b. 1936)

K

• Kazi Abdul Odud (1894–1970)
• Kazi Nazrul Islam (1898–1976)
• Khondakar Ashraf Hossain

M

• Mahbubul Alam (1898–1981)
• Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury (b. 1927)
• Mir Mosharraf Hossain
• Mohammad Barkatullah (1898–1974)
• Mohammad Nurul Huda (b. 1949)
• Mohammad Rafiq (b. 1943)
• Moinul Ahsan Saber (b. 1958)
• Mokbula Manzoor (b. 1938)
• Motaher Hussain Chowdhury (1903–1956)
• Muhammad Mohar Ali (1932–2007)
• M. R. Akhtar Mukul (1929–2004)
• Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (1926–1971)
• Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (b. 1948)
• Muhammad Habibur Rahman (b. 1935)
• Muhammad Shahidullah (1885–1969)
• Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (b. 1952)
• Munier Chowdhury (1925–1971)
• Muntasir Mamun

N

• Nurul Momen (Sobriquet:- Natyaguru) (1908–1990)
• Nasreen Jahan (b. 1964)
• Nilima Ibrahim (1921–2002)

Q

• Qazi Anwar Hussain
• Qazi Imdadul Haq
• Qazi Motahar Hossain (1897–1981)
• Qazi Nazrul Islam

R

• Rabeya Khatun (b. 1935)
• Rafiq Azad
• Rahat Khan (b. 1940)
• Rakib Hasan
• Rashid Askari (b.1965)
• Rashid Haider
• Rashid Karim (b. 1925)
• Razia Khan
• Rezauddin Stalin
• Rizia Rahman(b. 1939)
• Romena Afaz (1926–2003)
• Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (1956–1992)

S

• Salimullah Khan
• Sardar Fazlul Karim
• Sarder Jayenuddin (1918–1986)
• Selim Al-Deen (1949–2008)
• Selina Hossain (b. 1947)
• Sezan Mahmud (b. 1967)("NC 1988")
• Sen, Satyen (1907–81)
• Shah Muhammad Sagir (?)
• Shahadat Hussain (1893–1953)
• Shahed Ali (b. 1925)
• Shahid Akhand (b. 1935)
• Shahidul Zahir (1953–2008)
• Shahidullah Kaiser (1926–1971)
• Shahriyar Kabir
• Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926–97)
• Shamsunnahar Mahmud (1908–1964)
• Shamsur Rahman
• Shaukat Osman (1917–98)
• Sirajul Islam Chowdhury
• Sufia Kamal (1911–99)
• Syed Ali Ahsan
• Syed Abul Maksud
• Syed Emdad Ali (1880–1956)
• Syed Manzoorul Islam
• Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–74)
• Syed Shamsul Haque (1934)
• Syed Waliullah (1922–71)

T

• Tahmima Anam (b. 1975)
• Taslima Nasrin (b. 1962)

W

• Wasi Ahmed (b. 1954)

Z

• Zahir Raihan (1935–1972)