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Published: 12:54 AM, 18 July 2018
Bishnu Dey
Bishnu Dey was a prominent Bengali poet, prose writer, translator, academic and art critic in the era of modernism, post-modernism.
Starting off as a symbologist, he won recognition for the musical quality of his poems, and forms the post-Tagoregeneration of Bengali poets, like Buddhadeb Basu and Samar Sen, which marked the advent of "New Poetry" in Bengali literature, deeply influenced by Marxist ideology.
He even published a poetry magazine for while wherein he encouraged socially conscious writing. Through his literary career, he taught English literature at various Kolkata colleges.
In the 1920s & 1930s, he was also remained a member of a young group of poets, centered on the Kallol (Commotion) magazine. He was born on 18 July 1909 in West Bengal, India.
