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- EpicYusuf-Zulekhaইউসুফ-জুলেখাShah Muhammad Sagir · 1400A love story drawn from the Quran and the Persian poets, set into Bengali verse at the court of the sultans of Gaur.Literature
- PoetrySinging the Glory of Lord Krishnaশ্রীকৃষ্ণকীর্তনChandidas · 1400A cycle of dialogue songs on the love affair of the god Krishna and a married woman, in Old Bengali.Literature
- Epicসতী ময়না ও লোরচন্দ্রাণীDaulat Qazi · 1625not translated into EnglishA secular love poem composed at the court of Arakan, based on a ballad from northern India, and left unfinished.Literature
- EpicChandravatiচন্দ্রাবতীQuraishi Magan Thakur · 1645A popular Bengali tale put into verse in the seventeenth century by the chief minister of the kingdom of Roshang.Literature
- EpicPadmavatiপদ্মাবতীSyed Alaol · 1651A poem of love and war composed at the court of Arakan by a Bengali whom pirates had brought there, after a narrative written a century earlier in another language of India.Literature
- PoetryThe Slaying of Meghanadaমেঘনাদবধ কাব্যMichael Madhusudan Dutt · 1861An episode of the Ramayana told from the camp of the vanquished, in blank verse.LiteraturePublic domain
- Epicপলাশীর যুদ্ধNabinchandra Sen · 1875not translated into EnglishAn epic about the day in 1757 that delivered Bengal to the English Company.Literature
- NovelOcean of Sorrowবিষাদ-সিন্ধুMir Mosharraf Hossain · 1885The tragedy of Karbala, from the struggle against Yazid to the plain of the desert.Literature
- Essayহজরত মোহাম্মদের জীবনচরিত ও ধর্মনীতিSheikh Abdur Rahim · 1888not translated into EnglishThe life and teaching of the Prophet, set out for Bengali readers.Literature
- Short storiesSultana's DreamRokeya Sakhawat Hossain · 1905A work of speculative fiction written in English by a Bengali Muslim woman confined to seclusion, who reverses its rule.Literature
- TaleTales from Thakurmar Jhuliঠাকুরমার ঝুলিDakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar · 1907Tales collected in the villages of eastern Bengal at the beginning of the twentieth century, and given back to children in their own language.Literature
- Novelআনোয়ারাMohammad Najibar Rahman · 1914not translated into EnglishA young wife in the villages of Bengal, between mothers-in-law and a loving husband.Literature
- Novelবেণের মেয়েHaraprasad Shastri · 1919not translated into EnglishA merchant's daughter in a Bengali city in the time of the Buddhist kings.Literature
- NovelAbdullahআবদুল্লাহKazi Imdadul Huq · 1920A novel against the customs of the author's own community, given to a journal in his lifetime and completed by another hand.Literature
- PoetryThe Field of the Embroidered Quiltনকশী কাঁথার মাঠJasimuddin · 1929A love between young peasants from two villages of eastern Bengal, separated by a great field.Literature
- Short storiesআয়নাAbul Mansur Ahmed · 1935not translated into EnglishSeven satires of religious and political hypocrisy in Muslim Bengal between the wars.Literature
- Essayবিশ্বনবীGolam Mostafa · 1942not translated into EnglishThe life of Muhammad told to Bengali readers, between narrative and devotion.Literature
- PoetryBanalata Senবনলতা সেনJibanananda Das · 1942A slim collection published in the middle of the world war, in which the nature of Bengal and the passing of time take the place of a story.Literature
- PoetryThe Sailor of the Seven Seasসাত সাগরের মাঝিFarrukh Ahmad · 1944In the forties, Muslim poets of Bengal seek a poetry of their own, apart from the Calcutta current, in the past of Islam.Literature
- NovelTree Without RootsলালসালুSyed Waliullah · 1948A novel about what a man can build with an anonymous grave and a piece of red cloth, written the year after the partition.Literature
- NovelWhen the Time Is RightতিথিডোরBuddhadeva Bose · 1949The life of a middle-class family of Calcutta, as the country slides towards independence and war.Literature
- EssayThe Autobiography of an Unknown IndianNirad C. Chaudhuri · 1951The account of a childhood in eastern Bengal and a youth in Calcutta, written in English by a man who turns it into the history of a civilisation struggling against a hostile environment.Literature
- Poetryআমার ভাইয়ের রক্তে রাঙানো একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারিAbdul Gaffar Choudhury · 1952not translated into EnglishVerses born of the shooting of February 1952 against students in Dhaka, sung every year since at the Shaheed Minar.Literature
- TheatreকবরMunier Chowdhury · 1953not translated into EnglishA play born of the February 1952 shooting of students who were demanding their language, written in the place where the authorities had imprisoned its author.Literature
- Short storiesজিব্রাইলের ডানাShahed Ali · 1953not translated into EnglishA collection of seven stories, in which the title story tells of the misery of a mother and her son in Dhaka through a child's dreams.Literature
- Novelকাশবনের কন্যাShamsuddin Abul Kalam · 1954not translated into EnglishTwo friends, their loves and their songs, on the southern coast of East Bengal.Literature
- NovelSurya Dighal Bariসূর্য-দীঘল বাড়ীAbu Ishaque · 1955The story of a woman alone in a delta village in the aftermath of a famine, and of what a community makes pay the woman who must work to live.Literature
- CinemaThe Face and the MaskMukh O MukhoshAbdul Jabbar Khan · 1956A bandit film based on a play by its director, shot with makeshift equipment by people who were learning the trade.Cinema
- CinemaAsiyaFateh Lohani · 1960A thwarted love story set in a village, with which the state studios of Dhaka opened.Cinema
- NovelA Seaman's Wifeসারেং বউShahidullah Kaiser · 1962The novel of a woman left alone in a village on the coast, written in prison by a man whom the military regime had sent there.Literature
- Poetryসারা দুপুরAhsan Habib · 1964not translated into EnglishA collection from the mid-sixties, in East Pakistan, in which the author's poetry takes on a measured, intimate turn.Literature
- TheatreSiraj-ud-Daulahসিরাজউদ্দৌলাSikander Abu Zafar · 1965A historical tragedy about the last independent nawab of Bengal and the betrayal by his court.Literature
- CinemaRupbanরূপবানSalahuddin · 1965A story that troupes performed in the villages, brought to the screen for an audience that already knew it.Cinema
- Novelঅনেক সূর্যের আশাSarder Jayenuddin · 1966not translated into EnglishA fresco of the forties in Bengal, written twenty years later by a man who had lived through them.Literature
- Novelঅভিশপ্ত নগরীSatyen Sen · 1967not translated into EnglishA novel that looks to the history of Jerusalem for a way of speaking, through myth, of a country under military rule.Literature
- Novelসূর্য তুমি সাথীAhmed Sofa · 1967not translated into EnglishA novel about the life of a village in Chittagong, under the thumb of a local notable, where religious affiliation decides everything.Literature
- CinemaGlimpses of LifeJibon Theke NeyaZahir Raihan · 1970A family drama shot under the military regime, where the house stands for the country and the keys for power.Cinema
- Poetryবন্দী শিবির থেকেShamsur Rahman · 1972not translated into EnglishA collection composed during the nine months of the occupation by a poet who had not left his country.Literature
- Cinemaওরা ১১ জনChashi Nazrul Islam · 1972Shot in the months following the victory, with former fighters and their own weapons.Cinema
- Cinemaঅরুণোদয়ের অগ্নিসাক্ষীSubhash Dutta · 1972A film made the year after the war, about the fate of the women and children it had left behind.Cinema
- Cinemaআবার তোরা মানুষ হKhan Ataur Rahman · 1973Released two years after independence, about those who had won it and what they found on coming home.Cinema
- CinemaQuiet Flows the MeghnaDhire Bohe MeghnaAlamgir Kabir · 1973The first feature film by a documentary filmmaker of the war, who looks at the new country through the eyes of a foreign woman.Cinema
- CinemaA River Called TitasTitash Ekti Nadir NaamRitwik Ghatak · 1973A community of fishermen and their river, filmed in East Bengal in the aftermath of independence.Cinema
- Theatreপায়ের আওয়াজ পাওয়া যায়Syed Shamsul Huq · 1976not translated into EnglishA verse drama about a village that, once the soldiers have gone, calls to account the man who deceived it.Literature
- Novelহাঙর নদী গ্রেনেডSelina Hossain · 1976not translated into EnglishA novel of the year 1971 seen from the house of a village woman, drawn from a real event.Literature
- CinemaThe Endless Trailগোলাপী এখন ট্রেনেAmjad Hossain · 1978A village film about the rural poor and the fate dealt to women, adapted from a novel by its own author.Cinema
- CinemaThe Ominous Houseসূর্য দীঘল বাড়ীSheikh Niamat Ali · 1979A film based on a novel about a woman alone in the Bengali countryside, the first made with state funding.Cinema
- Novelচিলেকোঠার সেপাইAkhteruzzaman Elias · 1987not translated into EnglishA novel of the agitation that precedes independence, seen from an attic room in old Dhaka and from the countryside.Literature
- CinemaShongkhonil KaragarMustafizur Rahman · 1992A family drama based on a widely read youth novel, about the expectations placed on an eldest daughter.Cinema
- NovelLajja: Shameলজ্জাTaslima Nasrin · 1993A book written in haste in the wake of the violence of December 1992 against the country's Hindus, and banned on publication.Literature
- CinemaThe Boatman of the River PadmaPadma Nadir MajhiGoutam Ghose · 1993A Bengali novel of the thirties brought to the screen by the two Bengals together.Cinema
- CinemaJesus '71Ekattorer JishuNasiruddin Yousuff · 1993The year 1971 seen from a small Christian community of fishermen.Cinema
- CinemaAguner PoroshmoniHumayun Ahmed · 1994The 1971 war seen from an ordinary house in the capital, which shelters a fighter.Cinema
- NovelনভেরাHasnat Abdul Hai · 1995not translated into EnglishA novel built on the life of a sculptor who had vanished from the scene, in which the author casts himself as an investigator.Literature
- CinemaSong of FreedomMuktir GaanCatherine Masud and Tareque Masud · 1995A documentary edited from reels shot during the war by a foreign filmmaker.Cinema
- CinemaThe InsectsPoka Makorer Ghar BosotiAkhtaruzzaman · 1996The people of the sea and their masters, based on a novel, in a film made with the help of the State.Cinema
- CinemaDukhaiMorshedul Islam · 1997The life of coastal people facing the natural calamities that return year after year.Cinema
- CinemaQuiet Flows the River ChitraChitra Nodir PareTanvir Mokammel · 1999The partition of Bengal seen through a Hindu family that chooses to stay.Cinema
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