List of Bengali-language authors (chronological)

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

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(clockwise from top to bottom :) The oldest bengali script 'The charyapada' (top), Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bottom right), Rabindranath Tagore (Bottom left).
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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

• Khana (8th—12th century)
• Aryadev (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
• Bhusukupa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
• Dhendhanpa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
• Dombipa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
• Kahnapa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
• Kukkuripa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
• Luipa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
• Minapa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
• Sarhapa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}
• Shabarpa (9th century)^{[citation needed]}

Middle age

• Boru Chandidas (14th century)
• Ramai Pandit (14th century)
• Nur Qutb Alam (14th century)
• Shah Muhammad Saghir (14th century)
• Bipradas Pipilai (15th century)
• Vijay Gupta (15th century)
• Zainuddin (15th century)
• Krittibas Ojha (1381 — 1461)
• Krishnadasa Kaviraja (1496 – 15??)
• Chandrabati (16th century)
• Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan (16th century)
• Dom Antonio (16th century)
• Kashiram Das (16th century)
• Dwija Madhab (16th century)
• Syed Sultan (1550–1648)
• Alaol (1606–1680)
• Afzal Ali (17th century)
• Ketakadas Kshemananda (17th century)
• Abdul Hakim (17th century)
• Daulat Quazi (17th century)
• Rupram Chakrabarty (17th century)

18th century

• Heyat Mahmud (1693–1760)
• Bharatchandra Ray (1712–1760)
• Muhammad Muqim
• Ramprasad Sen (1720–1781)
• Rahimunnessa (1763–1800)
• 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)
• Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay (1834–1889)
• Girish Chandra Sen (1835/1836-1910)
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894)
• Kaliprasanna Singha (1840–1870)
• Dwijendranath Tagore (1840-1926)
• Girish Chandra Ghosh (1844–1912)
• Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912)
• Nabinchandra Sen (1847–1909)
• Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919)
• Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848–1909)
• Jyotirindranath Tagore (1849–1925)
• Hara Prasad Shastri (1853–1931)
• Hason Raja (1854–1922)
• Jagdish Chandra Bose (1858–1937)
• Sheikh Abdur Rahim (1859–1931)
• Akkhoykumar Boral (1860–1919)
• Jaladhar Sen (1860–1939)
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
• Dwijendralal Ray (1863–1913)
• Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (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)
• Priyamvada Devi (1871–1935)
• Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940)
• Provatkumar Mukhopadhyay (1873–1932)
• Kumudini Basu (1873–1942)
• 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)
• Nirupama Devi (1883–1951)
• Gobindachandra Das (1885–1918)
• Muhammad Shahidullah (1885–1969)
• Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (1885–1930)
• Nabinkali Devi (fl. 1886)
• 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)
• Premankur Atorthy (1890–1964)
• 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)
• Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay (1899–1979)

Early 20th century

• Ekramuddin Ahmad (1872–1940)
• Sajanikanta Das (1900–1962)
• Aroj Ali Matubbar (1900–1985)
• Sukumar Sen (1900–1992)
• Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986)
• Sudhindranath Dutta (1901–1960)
• Manoj Basu (1901–1987)
• Abul Fazal (1903–1983)
• Benojir Ahmed (1903–1983)
• Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–1976)
• Shibram Chakraborty (1903–1980)
• Jasimuddin (1903–1976)
• Motaher Hussain Chowdhury (1903–1956)
• Premendra Mitra (1904–1988)
• Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974)
• Annada Shankar Ray (1904–2002)
• Abdul Quadir (1906–1984)
• Humayun Kabir (1906–1969)
• Satinath Bhaduri (1906–1965)
• Abu Sayeed Ayyub (1906 - 1982 )
• 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)
• Gajendra Kumar Mitra (1908–1994)
• Leela Majumdar (1908–2007)
• Ashapoorna Devi (1909–1995)
• Bishnu Dey (1909–1982)
• Arun Mitra (1909–2000)
• Subodh Ghosh (1909–1980)
• Nihar Ranjan Gupta (1911–1986)
• Abujafar Shamsuddin (1911–1989)
• Begum Sufia Kamal (1911–1999)
• Jyotirindranath Nandi (1912–1982)
• Bimal Mitra (1912–1991)
• Dinesh Das (1913–1985)
• Adwaita Mallabarman (1914–1951)
• Kamal Kumar Majumdar (1914–1979)
• Protiva Bose (1915–2006)
• Narendranath Mitra (1916–1975)
• Samar Sen (1916–1987)
• Khudiram Das (1916–2002)
• Maniklal Sinha (1916-1994)
• Ahsan Habib (1917–1985)
• Akbar Hossain (1917–1981)
• Bijan Bhatacharya (1917–1978)
• Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay (1917–1995)
• 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)
• Ramapada Chowdhury (1922–2018)
• Syed Ali Ahsan (1922–2002)
• Syed Waliullah (1922–1971)
• Shaktipada Rajguru (1922–2014)
• Gour Kishore Ghosh (1923–2000)
• 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 (1925-2022)
• 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)
• Sailen Ghosh (1931–2016)
• Kabita Sinha (1931–1999)
• Nimai Bhattacharya (1931–2020)
• Alauddin Al-Azad (1932–2006)
• Muhammad Mohar Ali (1932–2007) (King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 2000)
• Shankha Ghosh (1932–2021)
• Nikhil Sarkar (Sripantha) (1932–2004)
• Adrish Bardhan (1932–2019)
• Mani Shankar Mukherjee (born 1933)
• Amartya Sen (born 1933)
• Anil Kumar Dutta (1933–2006)
• Sandipan Chattopadhyay (1933–2005)
• Samir Roychoudhury (1933–2016)
• Alokeranjan Dasgupta (1933–2020)
• Purnendu Patri (1933–1997)
• Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (1934-2022)
• Atin Bandyopadhyay (1934-2019)
• Sudhir Chakravarti (1934–2020)
• Binoy Majumdar (1934–2006)
• Mohit Chattopadhyay (1934–2012)
• Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012)
• Shakti Chattopadhyay (1934–1995)
• Prafulla Roy (1934–2025)
• Zahir Raihan (1935–1972)
• Rabeya Khatun (1935–2021)
• Shahid Akhand (born 1935)
• Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 1935)
• Syed Shamsul Haque (1935–2016)
• Abubakar Siddique (1936–2023)
• Al Mahmud (1936–2019)
• Amiya Kumar Bagchi (1936–2024)
• Bashir Al Helal (1936–2021)
• Buddhadeb Guha (1936-2021)
• Dilara Hashim (1936–2022)
• Jatin Sarker (born 1936)
• Razia Khan (1936–2011)
• Tarapada Roy (1936–2007)
• Sanjib Chattopadhyay (born 1936)
• Debesh Roy (1936–2020)
• Hosne Ara Shahed (1937–2022)
• Dilwar Khan (1937–2013)
• Tahrunessa Abdullah (born 1937)
• Makbula Manzoor (1938-2020)
• Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938–2019)
• Malay Roy Choudhury (1939–2023)
• Abdullah Abu Sayeed (born 1939)
• Bani Basu (born 1939)
• Dibyendu Palit (1939–2019)
• Hasan Azizul Huq (1939–2021)
• Hasnat Abdul Hye (born 1939)
• Iffat Ara (born 1939)
• Rizia Rahman (1939–2019)
• Bipradash Barua (born 1940)
• Rahat Khan (1940–2020)
• Sasthipada Chattopadhyay (1941–2023)
• Abdul Mannan Syed (1943–2010)
• Ahmed Sofa (1943–2006)
• Akhtaruzzaman Elias (1943–1997)
• Asad Chowdhury (1943–2023)
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharya (1944–2024)
• Samaresh Majumdar (1944–2023)
• Nirmalendu Goon (born 1945)
• Aveek Sarkar (born 1945)
• Prabir Ghosh (1945–2023)
• Haripada Datta (born 1947)
• Humayun Azad (1947–2004)
• Taradas Bandyopadhyay (1947–2010)
• Selina Hossain (born 1947)
• Tapan Bandyopadhyay (born 1947)
• Nabarun Bhattacharya (1948–2014)
• Humayun Ahmed (1948–2012)
• Abul Bashar (born 1949)
• Mohammad Nurul Huda (born 1949)

Late 20th century

• Suchitra Bhattacharya (1950–2015)
• Anish Deb (1950–2021)
• Ekram Ali (born 1950)
• Manoranjan Byapari (born 1950)
• Abul Bashar (1951)
• Amar Mitra (1951)
• Swapnamoy Chakraborty (born 1951)
• Shahidul Zahir (1953 – 2008)
• Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (born 1952)
• Joy Goswami (born 1954)
• Imdadul Haq Milan (born 1955)
• Anita Agnihotri (Born 1956)
• Anil Ghorai (born 1957)
• Moinul Hassan ( born 1958)
• Moinul Ahsan Saber ( born 1958)
• Subodh Sarkar (born 1958)
• Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri
• Tridib Kumar Chattopadhyay (born 1958)
• Chinmoy Guha (Born 1958)
• Tarun Mandal (1959)
• Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011)
• Rabisankar Bal (1962–2017)
• Shaheen Akhtar(born 1962)
• Taslima Nasrin (born 1962)
• Prachet Gupta (born 1962)
• Humayun Kabir Dhali (born 1964)
• Chandril Bhattacharya (1965)
• Rashid Askari (1965)
• Baby Halder (born 1973)
• Sourav Mukhopadhyay (1973)
• Moniruddin Khan (born 1974)
• Srijato (born 1975)
• Smaranjit Chakraborty (born 1976)
• Subhro Bandopadhyay (born 1978)
• Afsar Amed (1959 – 2018)
• Sadat Hossain (Born 1984)
• Mimi Mondal (Born 1988)
• Mohammad Nazim Uddin