Ananda Puraskar

The Ananda Puraskar (Bengali: আনন্দ পুরস্কার Anondo Puroshkar) (literally Ananda Award) is an award for Bengali literature awarded annually by the ABP Group to writers using Bengali, usually from West Bengal, India.

History

The award can be traced to a comment by Annada Shankar Ray ruing the absence of literary awards in Bengal. It was started on April 20, 1958 and has been given in the same month since. Initially, there were two awards, in memory of Prafulla Kumar Sarkar and Suresh Chandra Majumdar, the founders of Anandabazar Patrika. Another award was started in 1984 in memory of Ashok Kumar Sarkar to commemorate the golden jubilee of Desh. All three awards were merged in 2000.^[1]

Awardees

• 1958^[1] – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)
• .......Samaresh Basu (Suresh Chandra Majumdar Memorial)
• 1960 – Pramathanath Bishi^[1][2] – Kerry Saheber Munshi (novel) (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)
• 1961 – Syed Mujtaba Ali
• 1963 - Kalidas Roy
• 1966 – Sukumar Sen
• 1967 – Bimal Kar
• 1968 – Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya
• 1970 - Gour Kishore Ghosh
• 1971 – Satyajit Ray, Santosh Kumar Ghosh
• 1972 – Sunil Gangopadhyay^[3] - for general work
• 1973 – Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay^[4] - Manabjomin (novel)
• 1974 – Moti Nandi
• 1975 – Shakti Chattopadhyay^[5]
• 1976 – Buddhadeb Guha – Halud Basanta (novel)
• 1981 – Sanjib Chattopadhyay
• 1982 – Samaresh Majumdar
• 1983 – Annada Shankar Ray
• 1984 – Subhas Bhattacharya,
• .......Dibyendu Palit^[6] – Sahajoddha (novel),
• .......Sukumar Sen, Sagarmoy Ghosh, Bimal Mitra (Ashok Kumar Sarkar Memorial)^[1]
• 1985 – Alokranjan Dasgupta
• 1986 – Ketaki Kushari Dyson^[7] – Rabindranath o Victoria Ocampor Sandhane (historical novel) (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)
• 1988 – Abul Bashar
• 1989 – Sunil Gangopadhyay^[3] – Purbo-Paschim (novel)
• .......Amitav Ghosh – The Shadow Lines (novel)
• 1990 – Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay^[4] – Doorbeen (novel)
• .......Jay Goswami^[8] – Ghumiechho, Jhaupata? (poetry)
• 1991 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Jaya Mitra
• 1992 – Taslima Nasrin – Nirbachito Column (articles)
• 1993 – Bangla Academy (refused)
• .......Clinton B. Seely^[9] (Ashok Kumar Sarkar memorial)
• 1994 – Annada Shankar Ray,
• .......Shamsur Rahman,
• .......Anisuzzaman (Ashok Kumar Sarkar Memorial),^[10]
• .......Naren Biswas^[11] – Aitihyer Angikar (Audio cassettes, 13 Nos.)
• 1995 – Dr. Nazrul Islam - Bakul (novel)^[12]
• 1996 – Akhtaruzzaman Elias – Khwabnama (novel)
• 1997 – Bani Basu^[13] – Maitreya Jatak (novel) (Prafulla Kumar Sarkar Memorial)
• ........Ketaki Kushari Dyson^[7] & Sushobhan Adhikari – Ranger Rabindranath (on Tagore's colour vision) (Suresh Chandra Majumdar Memorial)
• 1998 – Jay Goswami^[8] – Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo (novel in verse)
• 1999 – Mandakranta Sen – Hriday Abadhya Meye (poetry)
• 2000 – Taslima Nasrin – Amar Meyebela (memoirs)
• 2001^[14] – Gauriprasad Ghosh – Everyman's Dictionary
• 2002^[15] – Sudhir Chakrabarti – Baul Fakir Katha (folk culture)
• 2003^[16] – Tilottama Majumdar – Basudhara (novel)
• 2004^[17] – Srijato – Uranto Sab Joker (poetry)
• 2005^[18] – Mihir Sengupta – Bishad Briksha (autobiography)
• 2006^[19] – Utpal Kumar Basu – Sukh-Duhkher Sathi (poetry)
• 2007^[20] – Dhritikanta Lahiri Chaudhuri – Hatir Boi (on elephants)
• 2008^[21] – Hasan Azizul Huq – Agunpakhi (novel)
• 2009^[22] – Ranajit Guha – Kabir Naam O Sarbanaam
• 2010^[23] - Sunanda Sikdar - Dayamayir Katha
• 2011^[24] - Gautam Bhadra - Nyara Bot-tolaye Jai Ko-bar?
• 2012^[25] – Pinaki Thakur - Chumbaner Kshata (poetry)
• 2013^[26] – Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay – Dhanapatir Singhalyatra (novel)
• 2014^[27][28] – Arindam Chakrabarti – Bhaatkaporer Bhabna Ebong Koyekti Aatpoure Darshanik Prayas (philosophy)

See also

• Rabindra Puraskar
• Bankim Puraskar
• Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers
• Bangla Academy Award

References

1. "Ananda Purashkar". ABP.
2. Badiuzzaman (2012). "Bishi, Pramathanath". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
3. http://www.sunilgangopadhyay.org/awards1.html
4. http://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/authors/texts/shirshendu.html
5. http://www.museindia.com/regularcontent.asp?issid=33&id=2196
6. http://www.calcuttayellowpages.com/adver/108977.html
7. http://www.virgiliolibro.com/kkd/awards.htm
8. http://parabaas.com/translation/database/authors/texts/joygoswami.html
9. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HG7DIrX3YeEC&pg=PP1
10. Dev, Soumitra; Sapheda, Farazi. আনিসুজ্জামান [Anisuzzarman]. Gunijan Trust (in Bengali).
11. গুণীজন: গবেষক ও অধ্যাপক নরেন বিশ্বাস
12. Bhattacharjee, C S (December 18, 2011). "Nazrul Islam: Maverick lone ranger in West Bengal". The Sunday Indian. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
13. http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/banibasu.html
14. বৈশাখী সন্ধ্যায় অভিধানগ্রন্থকে আনন্দ সম্মান, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 22, 2001
15. আনন্দ পুরস্কার পাচ্ছেন বাউল–ফকিরদের কথাকার, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 15, 2002
16. প্রবীণের উচ্ছ্বাস‚ নবীনের অঙ্গীকারে উদ্বেল আনন্দসন্ধ্যায় পুরস্কৃত তিলোত্তমা, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 27, 2003
17. আনন্দ–সন্ধ্যায় শ্রীজাতকে সাহিত্য–শিরোপা, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 18, 2004
18. অকপট আত্মজীবনীকে কুর্নিশ আনন্দ–সন্ধ্যায়, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 24, 2005
19. আত্মস্থ‚ মিতভাষ কবিকে আনন্দ শিরোপা, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 30, 2006
20. যুক্তিকে কুর্নিশ করছে আনন্দ পুরস্কার, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 15, 2007
21. হৃদয় ও মস্তিষ্কের মেলবন্ধনে উজ্জ্বল আনন্দসন্ধ্যা, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 27, 2008
22. আনন্দ-সম্মানই ঘরে ফেরাল প্রবাসী রণজিৎকে, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 26, 2009
23. নারীর 'সাদা' ভাষাকেই আনন্দ-অভিবাদন, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 25, 2010
24. বটতলায় গিয়েই আনন্দ ন্যাড়ার, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 15, 2011
25. কাব্যের আলো ছড়াল বিস্তৃত ভুবনডাঙায়, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 29, 2012
26. হারানো শব্দের মায়ায় মুগ্ধ আনন্দ-সন্ধ্যা, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 28, 2013
27. নামযশের সুখ নয়, বৈশাখী আনন্দসন্ধ্যায় আনন্দ-সন্ধান, Ananda Bazaar Patrika, April 16, 2014
28. Ananda puraskar 1420, The Telegraph (Calcutta), April 16, 2014

External links

• Contributors to the Rabindranath Section of Parabaas, Biographical data in website of Parabaas Bookstore