Nabarun Bhattacharya

Nabarun Bhattacharya was born on 23 June 1948 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He was an Indian writer in the Bengali language.

He was the only child of actor and playwright Bijon Bhattacharya and writer, activist Mahashweta Devi. His maternal grandfather was the writer from the Kallol era, Manish Ghatak. Visionary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak was his great uncle.

He studied in Kolkata, first Geology, then English, at Calcutta University. Nabarun married Pranati Bhattacharya, who was a professor of political science.

His novel, Herbert (1993), was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, and adapted into a film of the same name in 2005, by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Bhattacharya regularly edited a literary magazine Bhashabandhan. He was secretary of Ganasanskriti Parisad, the cultural organization of CPIML Liberation.