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20th-century Bengali poets

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Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Sarojini Naidu
Indian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
Taslima Nasrin
author, secular humanist, and feminist
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose
Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931–2007)
Kazi Nazrul Islam
National poet of Bangladesh (1899-1976)
Kamini Roy
British India's first female graduate, Bengali poet, social activist and feminist writer
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Indian writer (1898–1971)
Sufia Kamal
Bangladeshi writer
Swarnakumari Devi
Indian writer, editor, essayist, poet, novelist, musician and social worker (1855/1856-1932)
Jibanananda Das
Bengali Poet (1899-1954)
Sukumar Ray
Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and editor (1887-1923)
Shankha Ghosh
Indian poet (1932-2021)
Satyendranath Tagore
first civil servant of India
Dwijendranath Tagore
Indian poet, song composer, philosopher, mathematician, painter (1840–1926)
Subhash Mukhopadhyay
Indian writer (1919–2003)
Mallika Sengupta
Bengali poet
Brajendra Nath Seal
Indian academic and scholar
Premendra Mitra
Indian writer and film director
Joy Goswami
Bengali writer
Anita Agnihotri
Indian Bengali writer and civil servant
Malay Roy Choudhury
Indian Bengali writer and poet (1939–2023)
Buddhadeb Bose
Indian writer (1908–1974)
Al Mahmud
Poet, novelist, writer (1936-2019)
Dwijendralal Ray
Bengali poet, playwright, and musician
Sukanta Bhattacharya
Bengali poet (1926–1947)
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay
Indian writer (1899–1979)
Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya
Indian writer
Subodh Sarkar
Indian Bengali poet, writer and editor
Hason Raja
Bengali poet (1854–1922)
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Indian writer (1933–1995)
Samir Roychoudhury
Indian writer and poet (1933-2016)
Nirmalendu Goon
Bangladeshi poet
Kusumkumari Das
Poet
Golam Mostofa
Bengali writer (1897–1964)
Jasimuddin
Jasimuddin (; 1 January 1903 – 14 March 1976), popularly called Palli Kabi (), was a Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, composer and writer widely celebrated for his modern ballad sagas in the pastoral mode. Although his full name is Jasim Uddin Mollah, he is known as Jasim Uddin. His Nakshi Kanthar Math and Sojan Badiar Ghat are considered among the best lyrical poems in the Bengali language. He is the key figure for the revivals of pastoral literature in Bengal during the 20th century. As a versatile writer, Jasimuddin wrote poems, ballads, songs, dramas, novel, stories, memoirs, travelogues, etc.
Mir Mosharraf Hossain
Bengali novelist, essayist and playwright
Saroj Kumar Dutta
Indian intellectual and poet (1914-1971)
Kabita Sinha
Indian writer
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi
Bengali author
Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy
Bengali diplomat, poet and art critic (1890–1965)
Dilip Kumar Roy
Indian musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist (1897–1980)
Harinath Majumder
Editor, Grambarta prakashika (1833–1896)
Akshay Kumar Boral
Bengali writer (1860–1919)
Purnendu Shekhar Pattrea
Indian film director
Satyendranath Dutta
Bengali poet and writer
Utpal Kumar Basu
Bengali poet (1939–2015)
Binoy Majumdar
Indian writer and poet
Alokranjan Dasgupta
Bengali poet (1933-2020)
Amitabh Mitra
South African poet
Ramaranjan Mukherji
Indian academician, writer
Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri
poet
Sajanikanta Das
Bengali poet, literary critic
Shibram Chakraborty
Indian writer, humorist and revolutionary
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah
Bengali poet and Lyricist
Arun Mitra
Indian writer (1909-2000)
Pinaki Thakur
Indian poet
Mukunda Das
Bengali poet
Debi Roy
Indian poet
Kalidas Roy
Indian poet (1889-1975)
Jaladhar Sen
Bengali writer