Check in every Thursday for a new set of five! Today we have Soumitra Chatterjee, Joy Goswami, Minakshi Sen, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay and Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay.
Dheu by Dibyendu Palit
The acclaimed novel won Palit the Bankim Puraskar, the highest state award for Bengali fiction.
Ghumiyechho, Jhaupata? by Joy Goswami
The poet's fifth collection entitled, roughly translated, have you slept, pine leaf? It won the prestigious Ananda Puroskar.
Jailer Bhetor Jail by Minakshi Sen
Sen captures the days she spent in prison after being arrested on false charges in the 1970s during the rise of the Naxalite Movement in Kolkata.
Manabjamin by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
A Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel centred around Deepnath and the families of his siblings.
Shankini by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay
The author's debut that was as controversial as the rest of her work since has been. The novel explores female sexuality through three generations of a middle class family.
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