Suchitra Bhattacharya
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| Born | 10 January 1950 Bhagalpur, India |
| Died | 12 May 2015 (aged 65) Kolkata, India |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Calcutta University |
Suchitra Bhattacharya (10 January 1950 – 12 May 2015) was an Indian novelist.
Suchitra Bhattacharya was born on 10 January 1950 in Bhagalpur, Bihar. She was interested in writing from her childhood.
Bhattacharya graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata.
After graduating from the University of Calcutta she married and took a break from writing. She returned to writing with short stories written in the late seventies (1978–1979). She started writing novels in the mid eighties. Within a decade, especially after publication of the novel Kacher Dewal (Glass Wall), she became one of the major writers of Bengal.
She died on May 12, 2015 at 10.45pm at her home in Dhakuria, Kolkata due to a Heart attack .
Her writing focuses on contemporary social issues. She was a perceptive observer of the changing urban milieu and her writing closely examines the contemporary Bengali middle class. Crisis in human relationships and the changing values of the present era along with degeneration of the moral fiber of the society in the backdrop of globalization and consumerism are depicted in her prose. Exploitations and sufferings of women regardless of their social or economic identities find a distinct voice in her writing. She took up many odd jobs in her early youth and finally joined the public service which she left in 2004 to become a full-time writer. Her long career is reflected in many of her stories and novels. Though she herself is a prolific writer of Bengal, she was in awe of her fellow contemporary women authors like Sangita Bandyopadhyay and Tilottama Majumdar. She was deeply influenced by Ashapurna Debi and Mahasweta Debi, and their body of feminist work in Bengali literature.
Over the past two decades, Suchitra had written about 24 novels and a large number of short stories in different leading Bengali literary magazines. Some of her acclaimed novels are–
Suchitra Bhattacharya also contributed in the Bengali detective (adult crime fiction) genre parallel to her own forte and individualistic style of writing. Her written character Mitin Masi (aka 'Mitin' aunt) and various stories, novels revolving around mysteries (solved by Mitin mashi and her assistant niece Tupur in those novels) are very popular among Bengali readers. There are only a few female detective characters in Bengali literature and Mitin mashi is one of them.
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