Sibaji Bandopadhyay

Sibaji Bandyopadhyay writes poetry, plays, stories, novels, film-scripts in Bengali, and essays in Bengali and English. Some of his recent books include Three Essays on the Mahabharata: Exercises in Literary Hermeneutics; Sibaji Bandyopadhyay Rachanasamagra [Complete Works], volumes 1 and 2; Sibaji Bandyopadhyay Reader. He is the recipient of The Government of West Bengal ‘Vidyasagar Memorial Award’ 2010 for life-time-achievement in the sphere of Bengali prose, ‘Sisir Kumar Das Memorial Award’ 2010 for contributions to Bengali literature, ‘Buddhadeva Bose Memorial Award’ 2016 for contributions to the arena of Bengali and English essays.

Sibaji was formerly professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) and professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.