Joy Goswami
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Joy Goswami (Bengali: জয় গোস্বামী) (born 1954) is an Indian poet. Goswami writes in Bangla and is widely considered as one of the most important Bengali poets of his generation.
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[edit] Biography
Joy Goswami was born on November 10, 1954 in Kolkata. His family moved to Ranaghat, West Bengal shortly after and he has lived there ever since. Goswami was introduced and encouraged about poetry by his father, a well known political worker in the area. He lost his father at the age of six, after which the family was sustained by his mother, a teacher. She died in 1984. Goswami's formal education stopped early, in grade eleven. By this time he was already writing poetry. After a long period of writing in little magazines and periodicals, his writing was finally published in the influential Desh Patrika. This brought his immediate critical acclaim and so long after his first poetry collection was published, named Christmas o Sheeter Sonnetguchchho (Sonets of Christmas and Winter). He has received the Anita-Sunil Basu Award from the Bangla Akademi, Govt of W.B. the prestigious Ananda Purashkar in 1989 for Ghumiyechho, Jhaupata? (Have you slept, Pine leaf?) and the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2000 for his anthology Pagali tomara sange(With you, O crazy girl). A poet of romantic genre initially, he started writing political poems of late and has become an important voice of opposition politics, specially of BJP and Trinamul Congress.
[edit] Works
- Christmas o Sheeter Sonnetguchchho (1976)
- Protnojeeb (1978)
- Aleya Hrod (1981)
- Unmader Pathokromo (1986)
- Bhutumbhogoban (1988)
- Ghumiyechho Jhaupata? (1989)
- Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo
Published works by Jaya Gosvāmī (which is how his name is transliterated in the Library's catalog and Name Authority File) listed in the Library of Congress Catalog:
- Bajrabidyu_t-bharti khātā. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1995. ISBN 81-7215-399-6
- Bishāda. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1998. ISBN 81-7215-786-X
- Hrdaye premera ´sīrsha. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1994. ISBN 81-7215-293-0
- Jaga_tabāri. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 2000. ISBN 81-7756-107-3
- Kabitāsamgraha. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, <1997-2001>
- Mā nishāda. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1999. ISBN 81-7215-946-3
- Manoramera upanyāsa. Kalakātā : Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1994. ISBN 81-7215-222-1
- Oh svapna! Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1996. ISBN 81-7215-512-3
- Pāgalī, tomāra sange. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1994. ISBN 81-7215-290-6
- Pātāra po'sāka. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1997. ISBN 81-7215-672-3
- Pretapurusha o anupama kathā. Kalakātā: Ānanda, 2004. ISBN 81-7756-402-1
- Raudrachāyāra samkalana. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1998. ISBN 81-7215-821-1
- Sam'sodhana bā kātākuti. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 2001. ISBN 81-7756-124-3
- Sānjhabātira rūpakathārā. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1998. ISBN 81-7215-839-4
- Seisaba seyālara. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1994. ISBN 81-7215-316-3
- Shanjhbati's dreams = Shanjhbatir rupkathara. New Delhi: Srishti Publishers & Distributors, 2004. ISBN 81-88575-43-7
- Suranga o pratirakshā. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1995. ISBN 81-7215-420-8
- Sūrya-porā chāi. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1999. ISBN 81-7215-773-8
- Yārā brshtite bhijechila. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1998. ISBN 81-7215-566-2
Some MP3 recordings of him reading his poetry, along with a photograph, can be found at the South Asian Literary Recordings Project page.
[edit] Sample Work
বাত্সরিক (Batshorik)
নাম লিখেছি একটি তৄণে (Naam likhecchi ekti trine)
আমার মায়ের মৄত্যুদিনে (Amar mayer mrityudine)
Yearly
With a grass I have written the name
On the day my mother died
[From Ghumiyechho, Jhaupata?]
[edit] Awards
- Anita-Sunil Basu Award from Bangla Akademi, W.B. Govt.
- Ananda Purashkar (1989)
- Sahitya Akademi Award (2000)
