Narayan Sanyal

Sri Narayan Sanyal (26 April 1924, Calcutta - 7 February 2005) was a well-known writer of modern Bengali literature.

Biography

Sanyal's father was Chittasukh Sanyal, who was an engineer from B.E. College in Shibpur, Howrah, India and mother late Basantalata Devi.

He received several awards for literature including Rabindra Puraskar (for Aporupa Ajanta in 1969), Bankim Purashkar (for Rupmanjari in 2000), Narasingha Dutta Award. Many of his books were filmed and he won the Best Film Story Writer Award for the story Satyakaam Bengal Film Journalists.

Although Sanyal is known mostly as a novelist, he was an equally eminent civil engineer by profession. After graduating in science from the University of Calcutta, he passed Bachelor of Engineering from Bengal Engineering College in 1948. Thereafter he joined Public Works Department and later National Buildings Organisation, Ministry of Works and Housing, Eastern Region, Govt. of India. He was a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India)] and a Fellow of the Association of Engineers (India). He wrote books in Civil Engineering also like Vaastu Vigyan. He also wrote a series of detective fiction called the Kanta (Thorn) series, the framework of which was borrowed from the Perry Mason series of Erle Stanley Gardner and many of the individual stories were adapted from well-known English stories.

Works

Sanyal wrote numerous books that dealt with many topics, such as children, science, art and architecture, travels, psychiatric, technology, refugee problems, history, biographical pieces, and Devadasi-related.

Books

• Muskil Aasaan
• Bakultala P.L. Camp
• Satyakam--This one had a film version by Hrishikesh Mukherjee in Hindi
• Biswasghatak
• Prabanchak
• Antarleena
• Asleelotar Daye
• Emonta To Hoyei Thake
• Pashanda Pandit
• Parabola Sir
• Ladly Begum
• Buldozer Lady Ebong
• Dandak Shabory
• Dandakaranyo
• Lal Trikon
• Lindeberg
• Shaatordhe
• Monami
• Ami Rasbehari Ke Dekhechi
• Ami Netaji Ke Dekhechi
• Netajir Rahasyo Sandhane
• Hey Hanso Balaka
• Gajomukta
• TajEr Swapno
• Aabar Jodi Ichcha Karo
• Daante O Anyanyo
• Raskel
• Nagchampa
• Kantay Kantay(1,2,3,4,5,6)-This series is inspired from Perry Mason by Earle Gardener
• Bharatiyo Bhaskarje Mithun
• Rupamanjari
• Ajanta Aparupa
• La-jawab-delhi o Aparupa Agra
• Sutanuka Ek Debdasir Naam
• Sutanuka Kono Debdasir Naam Noy
• Timi Timingil
• Milanantak
• Neelimay Neel
• Prem
• Origamy
• Aartemisiya

External links

• An obituary
• Another obituary
• WorldCat Booklist