Malay Roy Choudhury was born on 29 October 1939, in Patna, Bihar, India, into the Sabarna Roy Choudhury clan, which owned the villages that became Kolkata. He grew up in Patna’s Imlitala ghetto, which was mainly inhabited by Dalit Hindus and Shia Muslims.
He is an Indian Bengali poet, playwright, short story writer, essayist, and novelist who founded the Hungryalist movement in the 1960s.
Roy Choudhury went on to write poetry, fiction, plays, short stories, and essays on Bengali social and cultural issues. He has written more than seventy books to date.
Roy Choudhury wrote three dramas during the Hungryalism movement: Illot, Napungpung, and Hibakusha, considered to be a mash-up of the Theater of the Absurd and Transhumanism.
