File photo of Debesh Roy CollectedTribute to Debesh Roy (1936–2020)With the passing of Debesh Roy, Bangla fiction has lost one of its biggest luminaries whose fiction is equally loved in both West Bengal and Bangladesh. He belongs to the esteemed group of Marxist writers whose fiction brought voices of the marginalized to the fore in Bangla fiction. Debesh’s first book was a short story collection entitled Debesh Roy er Golpo, published in 1969. In his fiction, he constantly broadened the horizons of realism and worked out a new mode of expression from one novel to another, combining storytelling techniques of fiction, nonfiction and even journalism. Known as “writer of the writers”, Debesh received Sahitya Akademi award in 1990.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 17, 2020 12:11 UTC