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Apr 10, 1901 Serampore, West Bengal, India Died on 12 Jun 1986 (aged 85)
Indian literary critic, academic and Bengali Poet
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About Amiya Chakravarty
- Amiya Chandra Chakravarty (1901–1986) was an Indian literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet.
- He was a close associate of Rabindranath Tagore, and edited several books of his poetry.
- He was also an associate of Gandhi, and an expert on the American catholic writer and monk, Thomas Merton.
- Chakravarty was honoured for his own poetry with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963.
- He taught literature and comparative religion in India for nearly a decade and then for more than two decades at universities in England and the U.S.
- In 1970, he was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Bhushan award.
