Important things to be noted:-* *
This choice of 10 best authors is my personal choice, please don?t mind if your favorite author is not in the list. As Bengali is my mother tongue I have chosen 5 authors from my language .I have written much about the Bengali authors to make them known to my nonbengali ms friends. Don?t take it otherwise.
:From English Literature:
From English literature my favorite 5 are-
1)Sir Arthur Konnon Doyle:- Detective fictions are my favorite subject and my favorite boss in this case is Sir Arthur. Sherlock Holmes is now myth today and from the very beginning to today Mr. Holmes is still very popular throughout the world.
2)Agatha Kristy:- *Agatha Kristy is immortal for the character Erkule Poarro who is a very strong contestant of Sherlock Holmes. The classic investigation technique of Poarro is simply mind blowing.
3)Ian Fleming:-?My name is Bond, James Bond?, Oh! What a dialogue! A spy who is simultaneously so much smart and romantic. James Bond is totally superb!
4)Charles Dickens:- Charles Dickens is one of the greatest English fiction writer.?Oliver Twist?, ?David Copperfield?, ?A tale of two cities?, ?Great Expectations? etc fictions are eternal in English literature.
5) Jules Verne:- This man imagined so much about his future and the science fictions like?Round the world in eighty Days?, ?Twenty Thousand leagues under the sea?, ?The light house?, ?A drama in Livonia?, ?The school for Robinsons? and so on and so forth are one of the best of English literature.
*:From Bengali Literature:
From Bengali literature my favorite 5 are-
1)Humayun Ahmed:-* No. 1 fiction writer of Bangladesh. He is a PHD from North Dakota State University in polymer Chemistry and one of the faculty member of Dhaka University. He has written at about 50-60 outstanding fictions and still writing. His developed mentality in contemporary Bengali literature is remarkable. He has written some exceptional science fictions about the space. His creation the stories from psychiatrist Misir Ali who is very much logical character and anti logic character Himu are bright gems in Bengali literature. In Bangladesh and West Bengal(India) his book sells like hotcake.
2)Sirshendu Mukherjee:- One of the best contemporary author of India. M.A from Calcutta University. Presently he is in journalism. A very powerful writer. His fictions?ManabJamin?, ?Parthib?, ?Durbin?, ?Chakra? are totally superb. His science fictions for children is also very much popular. His descriptive style of human psychology is great.
3)Rabindranath Tagore:- Nothing to say about?Gurudeb?. I just want to tell that he not only wrote some great poems, he was a great fiction writer too. If you read the fictions like?Gora?, ?Sesher Kobita?, ?Malancha?, ?Chokher Bali? etc you will invent him again. This man really is a golden era in Bengali literature.?Quantity spoils quality? Tagore proved it wrong.
4)Sunil Ganguly:- Another very powerful author in Bengali literature. His novels like?Purba-Paschim?, ?Sei Somoy? are one of the best in World. His adventure stories of Kakababu a handicap brave man are very much popular among the children. In his earlier days Sunil Ganguly was famous for his great poems and now he is a very popular Bengali author.
5)Saratchandra Chattarjee:-Many of you have seen the current blockbuster?Devdas? and thought about the great story of the movie. But the author himself thought that this Fiction is the worst story of him. He is Saratchandra Chatterjee. This man wrote some everlasting fictions in world literature.?Srikanto? is his best creation. His fiction?Sabyasachi? was banned during the freedom movement. Fictions like?Parinita?, ?Pallisamaj? is very much remarkable in Bengali literature. His immortal story?Mahesh? one of the best story in world literature.