Buddhadeva Bose was one of the most versatile Bengali writers of the twentieth century. His works include the novels Tithidore and Moner Moto Meye, the collections of poems Damoyanti and Morche Pora Pereker Gan and the short story collection Bhashao Amar Bhela. Bose received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 for his verse play Tapaswi o Tarangini, was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 1970 and posthumously received the Rabindra Puraskar in 1974 for Swagato Biday. Clinton B. Seely is a prominent scholar of the Bengali language and literature. He has written a biography of the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das and has translated Michael Madhusudan Dutt's Meghnadbadh Kavya into English. He has received the 'Ashoke Kumar Sarkar Memorial' Ananda Prize in 1993 and the Dinesh Chandra Sen Research Society's '4th Annual Award for Excellence in Research in Bengali Literature' in 1999.
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