JOY GOSWAMI

Joy Goswami was born on November 10, 1954 in Kolkata. Goswami's formal education stopped early, in grade eleven. His first poetry collection, named Christmas o Sheeter Sonnetguchchho (Sonnets of Christmas and Winter) brought him immediate critical acclaim. Goswami is one of the most powerful poets of Bengal and one of the best in the post-Jibanananda Das era of Bengali poetry. Primarily a poet, he has also written novels and literary prose. He has more than 30 published books, including three volumes of compiled poems numbering close to a thousand. He has written 12 novels, two of which are written in verse and 5 collections of essays related to interpretation and appreciation of Bengali poetry. He has received the most prestigious Ananda Puroshkar twice, in 1990 for Ghumiyechho Jhaupata? (Have you slept, Pineleaf?) and in 1998 for Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo (Those Drenched in Rain). In 1997 he won the Bangla Academy Puroshkar for Bajrobidyut-bharti Khata (Scrapbook of Thunder and Lightning) and in the same year he also won the Birendra Chattopadhyay Smriti award for Patar Poshak (Garments of Leaf). The Sahitya Academy Award from the government of India came in 2000 for his collection of poems Paagli Tomar Shongey (With You, Crazy Girl). Goswami has expressed his dissent on several grave injustices that have taken place in India. These include the mass killing of Dalits in Jehana village in 2001 and the Nandigram massacre of 2007. He has been vocal against state brutalities. His poems have taken a very different turn in his most recent book of poems Shashoker Proti (To The Powers That Be), translated into English by Sampurna Chattarji. In 2007 he left the premier Bengali magazine, Desh and joined the newspaper, Sanbad Protidin, where he currently works.



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