Amiya Chakravarty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Amiya Chakravarty

Indian literary critic, academic and Bengali Poet

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1901

Place of Birth: Serampore, West Bengal, India

Date of Death: 12-Jun-1986

Profession: composer, poet, professor, literary critic

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.