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Buddhadeva Bose

Died in 1974

Buddhadeva Bose was born in Comilla on 30 November 1908; his mother died shortly after his birth and he was raised by his maternal grandparents, between Comilla, Noakhali and Dhaka. A graduate in English from the University of Dhaka, he settled in Calcutta in 1931, where in 1935 he founded the poetry journal Kavita. In 1956 he established the department of comparative literature at Jadavpur University and translated Kalidasa, Baudelaire, Hölderlin and Rilke. Convicted of obscenity on 19 December 1970 over another of his books, then acquitted on appeal, he received the Padma Bhushan the same year. He died in Calcutta in 1974.

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