Author Prafulla Roy passes away at 91
Kolkata: Author Prafulla Roy, aged 91, passed away on Thursday at a south Kolkata nursing home.
Roy, who shot to fame with his celebrated novel, 'Purba Parbati', in the 1950s and authored more than 150 books, was a winner of several literary awards, including the Sahitya Akademi for his novel, 'Krantikal', in 2003.
He is survived by his two daughters. CM Mamata Banerjee paid tribute to the late author and conveyed her condolences to his family. "Prafulla Roy's books brought alive the pain of refugees. His 'Keyapatar Nouko' is a remarkable story," she wrote on X. He spun his stories around lives of the common man.
Roy was born in 1934 in Bikrampur near Dhaka, now in Bangladesh. He migrated to India with his family in 1950. Some of his more successful novels are 'Keya Patar Nouko', 'Shatadharay Boye Jay', and 'Uttal Somoyer Itikatha'.
His works 'Ekhane Pinjar', 'Bagh Bandi Khela', 'Charachar', 'Ekanta Apan', 'Bagh Bahadur', 'Mondo Meyer Upakhyan', 'Krantikal', and 'Pitribhumi' were made into films.
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