List of Bengali-language authors (chronological)

This is a Chronological list of Bengali language authors (regardless of nationality or religion), by date of birth. Alphabetical order is used only when chronological order cannot be ascertained.

The list also marks the winners of major international and national awards:

• Nobel Prize winners are marked with
• Ramon Magsaysay Award winners are marked with:
• Bharat Ratna winners are marked with:
• Padma Vibhushan winners are marked with:
• Padma Bhushan winners are marked with:
• Independence Day Award winners are marked with:
• Ekushey Padak winners are marked with:
• Banga-Vibhushan winners are marked with:

For an alphabetic listing of Bengali language authors please refer to alphabetic list of Bengali language authors.

Ancient Age

• Aryadev (9th century)
• Bhusukupa (9th century)
• Dhendhanpa (9th century)
• Dombipa (9th century)
• Kahnapa (9th century)
• Kukkuripa (9th century)
• Luipa (9th century)
• Minapa (9th century)
• Sarhapa (9th century)
• Shabarpa (9th century)

Middle Age

• Boru Chandidas (????)
• Ramai Pandit (13th/14th century)
• Krittibas Ojha (1443-15??)
• Krishnadasa Kaviraja (1496 - 15??)
• Dwija Madhab (16th century)
• Rupram Chakrabarty (17th century)
• Syed Sultan (1550–1648)
• Alaol (1606–1680)
• Abdul Hakim (17th century)
• Daulat Quazi (17th century)

18th century

• Bharatchandra Ray (1712–1760)
• Ramprasad Sen (1720–1781)
• Ramram Basu (1751–1813)

19th century

• Ishwar Chandra Gupta (1812–1859)
• Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1882)
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891)
• Lal Behari Dey (1824–1892)
• Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873)
• Rajnarayan Basu (1826–1892)
• Dinabandhu Mitra (1830–1873)
• Girish Chandra Sen (1835/1836-1910)
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894)
• Kaliprasanna Singha (1840–1870)
• Girish Chandra Ghosh (1844–1912)
• Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912)
• Nabinchandra Sen (1847–1909)
• Sivanath Sastri (1847–1919)
• Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919)
• Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848 — 1909)
• Jyotirindranath Tagore (1849–1925)
• Hason Raja (1854–1922)
• Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858–1937)
• Sheikh Abdur Rahim (1859–1931)
• Akkhoykumar Boral (1860–1919)
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
• Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913)
• Upendrakishore Ray (1863–1915)
• Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902)
• Ashutosh Mukherjee (1864–1924)
• Kamini Roy (1864–1933)
• Ramendra Sundar Tribedi (1864–1919)
• Rajanikanta Sen (1865-1910)
• Dinesh Chandra Sen (1866–1939)
• Gaganendranath Tagore (1867–1938)
• Pramatha Chowdhury (1868–1946)
• Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1869–1953)
• Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951)
• Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940)
• Provatkumar Mukhopadhyay (1873–1932)
• Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938)
• Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1877–1957)
• Jatindramohan Bagchi (1878–1948)
• Ismail Hossain Shiraji (1880–1931)
• Rajshekhar Bose (1880–1960)
• Syed Emdad Ali (1880–1956)
• Qazi Imdadul Haq (1882–1926)
• Satyendranath Dutta (1882–1922)
• Sheikh Fazlul Karim (1882–1936)
• Hemendrakumar Roy (1883–1963)
• Kumud Ranjan Mullick (1883–1970)
• Gobindachandra Das (1885–1918)
• Muhammad Shahidullah (1885–1969)
• Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (1885–1930)
• Jagadish Gupta (1886–1957)
• Sukumar Ray (1887–1923)
• Eyakub Ali Chowdhury (1888–1940)
• Mohitolal Majumdar (1888–1952)
• Kalidas Roy (1889–1975)
• Mohammad Lutfur Rahman (1889–1936)
• Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890–1970)
• S. Wajid Ali (1890–1951)
• Sachin Sengupta (1891–1961)
• Sahadat Hussain (1893–1953)
• Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay (1894–1950)
• Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (1894–1987)
• Golam Mostofa (1897–1964)
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999)
• Qazi Motahar Hossain (1897–1981)
• Abul Mansur Ahmed (1898–1979)
• Mahbubul Alam (1898–1981)
• Mohammad Barkatullah (1898–1974)
• Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya (1898–1971)
• Jibanananda Das (1899–1954)
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (1899–1970)
• Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976)
• Nirupama Devi (1883-1951)

Early 20th century

• Aroj Ali Matubbar (1900–1985)
• Sukumar Sen (1900–1992)
• Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986)
• Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960)
• Abul Fazal (1903–1983)
• Benojir Ahmed (1903–1983)
• Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–1976)
• Jasimuddin (1903–1976)
• Motaher Hussain Chowdhury (1903–1956)
• Premendra Mitra (1904–1988)
• Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974)
• Annadashankar Roy (1905–2002)
• Abdul Kadir (1906–1984)
• Humayun Kabir (1906–1969)
• Bande Ali Mia (1907–1979)
• Satyen Sen (1907–1981)
• Nurul Momen 'Natyaguru' (1908-1990)
• Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–1974)
• Dewan Mohammad Azraf (1908–1999)
• Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–1956)
• Leela Majumdar (1908–2007)
• Ashapoorna Devi (1909–1995)
• Bishnu Dey (1909–1982)
• Arun Mitra (1909–2000)
• Subodh Ghosh (1909–1980)
• Abujafar Shamsuddin (1911–1989)
• Begum Sufia Kamal (1911–1999)
• Syed Waliullah (1912–1971)
• Dinesh Das (1913–1985)
• Protiva Bose (1915–2006)
• Narendranath Mitra (1916–1975)
• Samar Sen (1916–1987)
• Ahsan Habib (1917–1985)
• Akbar Hussain (1917–1980)
• Bijan Bhatacharya (1917–1978)
• Shawkat Osman (1917–1998)
• Amiya Bhūşhan Majumdār (1918–2001)
• Farrukh Ahmed (1918–1974)
• Narayan Gangopadhyay (1918–1970)
• Sarder Jayenuddin (1918–1986)
• Sikandar Abu Zafar(1919–1975)
• Abu Rushd (1919-2010)
• Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003)
• Nilima Ibrahim (1921–2002)
• Ahmed Sharif (1921–1999)
• Satyajit Ray (1921–1992)
• Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921–1990)
• Bimal Kar (1921-2003)
• Syed Ali Ahsan (1922–2002)
• Shaktipada Rajguru (1922–2014)
• Samaresh Basu (1924-1988)
• Narayan Sanyal (1924–2005)
• Badal Sarkar (1925-2011)
• Munier Chowdhury (1925–1971)
• Rashid Karim (1925-2011)
• Ritwik Ghatak (1925–1976)
• Shahed Ali (1925-2001)
• Abu Ishaque (1926–2003)
• Romena Afaz (1926 - 2003)
• Mahasweta Devi (1926-2016 )
• Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (1926–1971)
• Narayan Debnath (1926- )
• Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926–1997)
• Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926–1947)
• Lokenath Bhattacharya (1927–2001)
• Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury (1927–2007)
• Shahidullah Kaiser (1927–1971)
• Anwar Pasha (1928–1971)
• Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1929–1996)
• Jahanara Imam (1929–1994)
• M. R. Akhtar Mukul (1929–2004)
• Shamsur Rahman (1929–2006)
• Utpal Dutt (1929–1993)
• Abdullah-Al-Muti (1930–1998)
• Syed Mustafa Siraj (1930–2012)
• Moti Nandi (1931–2010)
• Alauddin Al-Azad (1932–2006)
• Muhammad Mohar Ali (1932–2007) (King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 2000)
• Shankha Ghosh (1932- )
• Amartya Sen (1933- )
• Anil Kumar Dutta (1933–2006)
• Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005)
• Samir Roychoudhury (1933-2016)
• Purnendu Patri (1933–1997)
• Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (1934- )
• Atin Bandyopadhyay (1934- )
• Binoy Majumdar (1934–2006)
• Mohit Chattopadhyay (1934–2012)
• Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012)
• Shakti Chattopadhyay (1934–1995)
• Zahir Raihan (1935–1972)
• Rabeya Khatun (1935- )
• Shahid Akhand (1935- )
• Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (1935- )
• Syed Shamsul Haque (1935- )
• Abubakar Siddique (1936- )
• Al Mahmud (1936- )
• Amiya Kumar Bagchi (1936- )
• Bashir Al Helal (1936- )
• Buddhadeb Guha (1936- )
• Dilara Hashim (1936- )
• Jatin Sarker (1936- )
• Razia Khan (1936–2011)
• Tarapada Roy (1936–2007)
• Sanjeev Chattopadhyay (1936- )
• Hosne Ara Shahed (1937- )
• Dilwar Khan (1937–2013)
• Tahrunessa Abdullah (1937- )
• Mokbula Manzoor (1938- )
• Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938- )
• Malay Roy Choudhury (1939-)
• Abdullah Abu Sayeed (1939- )
• Bani Basu (1939- )
• Dibyendu Palit (1939- )
• Hasan Azizul Huq (1939- )
• Hasnat Abdul Hye (1939- )
• Iffat Ara (1939- )
• Rizia Rahman (1939- )
• Bipradash Barua (1940- )
• Muhammad Yunus (1940- )
• Rahat Khan (1940- )
• Abdul Mannan Syed (1943- )
• Ahmed Sofa (1943–2006)
• Akhtaruzzaman Elias (1943–1997)
• Asad Chowdhury (1943- )
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharya (1944- )
• Samaresh Majumdar (1944 - )
• Vattacharja Chandan (1944- )
• Nirmalendu Goon (1945- )
• Prabir Ghosh (1945- )
• Matiur Rahman (1946- )
• Haripada Datta (1947- )
• Humayun Azad (1947–2004)
• Selina Hossain (1947- )
• Sheikh Hasina (1947- )
• Nabarun Bhattacharya (1948-2014)
• Humayun Ahmed (1948-2012 )
• Abul Bashar (1949- )
• Mohammad Nurul Huda (1949- )

Late 20th century

• Ekram Ali (1950- )
• Suchitra Bhattacharya (1950-2015 )
• Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (1952- )
• Shahidul Jahir (1953–2008)
• Joy Goswami (1954- )
• Imdadul Haq Milon (1955- )
• Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (1956–1992)
• Anil Ghorai (1957- )
• Moinul Ahsan Saber (1958- )
• Subodh Sarkar (1958- )
• Zillur Rahman John (1959- )
• Mallika Sengupta (1960-2011)
• Taslima Nasrin (1962- )
• Humayun Kabir Dhali (1964- )
• Anisul Hoque (1965- )
• Rashid Askari (1965- )
• Nasreen Jahan (1966- )
• Sezan Mahmud (1967- )
• Baby Halder (1973- )
• Moniruddin Khan (1974- )
• Srijato (1977- )
• Subhro Bandopadhyay (1978- )

References

• Biletey Bishshotoker Bangla Kobi, Robbani Chowdhury, Agamee Prokasion, Dhaka, 2000
• History of Bengali Literature, Rabbani Choudhury, Utso, Dhaka, 2010
• Bangla Literature, an English magazine edited by Sayeed Abybakar