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Satyen Sen

Died in 1981

Satyen Sen was born on 28 March 1907 in the village of Sonarang, in Bikrampur, the son of the writer Dharanimohan Sen. A student in Calcutta and a member of the revolutionary group Jugantar, he was arrested and took his master's degree in Bengali while in prison; released in 1938, he joined the peasant movement and then became a communist leader, and spent some eighteen years in prison in all. In 1968 he founded the cultural organisation Udichi and in 1970 received the Bangla Academy Prize for his novels. He died in Santiniketan in 1981.

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