Shishir Bhattacharja, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shishir Bhattacharja

Bangladeshi linguist and writer

Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1963

Place of Birth: Sitakunda, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh

Profession: writer, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Shishir Bhattacharja (born 4 August 1963) is a Bangladeshi linguist, writer, columnist, and a professor of the French language at the University of Dhaka.
He is also the Director of the Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka.
An ardent advocate and promoter of the Bengali language, he has written extensively on the use of Bengali in Bangladesh.
He translated works of Guillaume Apollinaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and Bernard-Henri Lévy into Bengali and poems of Jibanananda Das into French.