Premendra Mitra

Premendra Mitra was born on 4 September 1904 in Benares, where his father worked on the railways; his mother having died, he was raised by his grandparents. He published his first stories in 1923, contributed to the journal Kallol, which brought modernism to Bengali, and established himself as a poet after 1930. A journalist, he edited a magazine for young people, wrote for the cinema and then directed films, and produced works of science fiction, ghost stories and detective fiction. He died in Calcutta on 3 May 1988.

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• Short storiesMosquitoমশাPremendra Mitra · 1945Literature