Joy Goswami

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*''[[Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo]]''
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'''Joy Goswami''' ({{IPA|en|dʒɔe̯ ɡoʃwami|}} {{respell|''goh-SHWAH-mee''}}; born 10 November 1954) is an Indian poet, novelist, and short story writer.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1993 |title=Our Contributors |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23337579 |journal=Indian Literature |volume=36 |issue=6 (158) |pages=195–196 |jstor=23337579 |issn=0019-5804}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Joy Goswami --Bengali Poet: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi Office) |url=https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/joygoswami.html |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=www.loc.gov}}</ref> Goswami writes in [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and is widely considered as one of the most important poets in the post-[[Jibanananda Das]] era of [[Bengali poetry]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Joy Goswami - Nebraska Press |url=https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/whale-star/9780979975271/joy-goswami/ |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=University of Nebraska Press |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Roy |first=Sumana |title=Joy Goswami, Selected Poems - Asymptote |url=https://www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/joy-goswami-selected-poems/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202225824/https://www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/joy-goswami-selected-poems/ |archive-date=December 2, 2024 |access-date=March 24, 2025 |website=www.asymptotejournal.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Bengali poet Joy Goswami to get 31st Moortidevi Award |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/bengali-poet-joy-goswami-to-get-31st-moortidevi-award-117121500872_1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240712004620/https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/bengali-poet-joy-goswami-to-get-31st-moortidevi-award-117121500872_1.html |archive-date=2024-07-12 |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=[[Business Standard]] |language=en-US}}</ref> His work addresses ordinary lives, marriage struggles, relationships with women, and the act of writing. He is lauded for his linguistically inventive poetry, its semi-abstract imagery, and strong lyrical appeal.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last1=Chakrabarti |first1=Kunal |title=Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis |last2=Chakrabarti |first2=Shubhra |date=2013 |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |isbn=978-0-8108-5334-8 |series=Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures |location=Lanham |pages=206}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-11-26 |title=Reflections on Poetry and Literary Expectations |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/columns/K_Satchidanandan/from-the-earth-and-the-sky/article64751165.ece |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241212210452/https://frontline.thehindu.com/columns/K_Satchidanandan/from-the-earth-and-the-sky/article64751165.ece |archive-date=December 12, 2024 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Frontline |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Signatures: one hundred Indian poets |date=2006 |publisher=[[National Book Trust]] |isbn=978-81-237-4107-9 |editor-last=Saccidānandan |edition= |location=New Delhi |editor-last2=National Book Trust}}</ref>

Goswami’s work is acclaimed in [[Bengal]] and [[India]] but remains obscure abroad, despite some translations by the 1981 Nobel laureate [[Roald Hoffmann]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bhutoria |first=Sundeep |date=2011-03-05 |title=Bengali poems and Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann |url=https://sundeepbhutoria.in/bengali-poems-and-nobel-laureate-roald-hoffmann/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=sundeepbhutoria.in |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Roy |first=Barnali |date=2002 |title=Bengali Poetry Today: A Reader's Perspective |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23345742 |journal=Indian Literature |volume=46 |issue=2 (208) |pages=181–187 |jstor=23345742 |issn=0019-5804}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Purkayastha |first=Rahul |date=February 22, 2025 |title=সব কবিতাই প্রতিবাদের (in Bengali) |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/culture/book-reviews/review-of-a-book-on-joy-goswamis-poems-edited-by-abhirup-mukherjee/cid/1583593 |access-date=March 22, 2025 |work=[[Anandabazar Patrika]]}}</ref> His poetry collections, short stories and novels have won several awards, including two [[Ananda Puraskar]], the 1997 Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi Award for Bajra Bidyut Bharti Khata, the 2000 [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for his poetry collection ''[[Pagali Tomar Sange|Pagali Tomar Sange (Crazy girl, with you)]]'', the 2012 [[Banga Bibhushan]], the 2017 [[Moortidevi Award]] for ''Du Dondo Phowara Matro''

In 1976, he joined [[Desh (magazine)|Desh]] as a staff writer and later served as the magazine's poetry editor until leaving for ''[[Sangbad Pratidin]]'' in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Joy Goswami |url=https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-2722_Goswami |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=www.poetryinternational.com |language=nl}}</ref><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 1, 2003 |title=Joy Goswami (b.1954) |url=https://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/authors/texts/joygoswami.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250119103934/https://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/authors/texts/joygoswami.html |archive-date=January 19, 2025 |access-date=March 23, 2025 |website=www.parabaas.com}}</ref> In addition to his literary works, his interests include [[Aphorism|aphorisms]] on art, [[Theatre of India|theatre]], [[Indian classical music]], letters, and [[cricket]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Mukhopadhyay |first=Sumanta |title=Goswami, Joy (1954–) |date=2016 |work=Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism |url=https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/goswami-joy-1954 |access-date=2025-04-12 |edition=1 |place=London |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/0123456789-rem1854-1 |isbn=978-1-135-00035-6|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Biography==
===Family and early years===
Joy Goswami was born on November 10, 1954, in [[Kolkata]]. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to [[Ranaghat]], a town beside the [[Churni River]] in [[Nadia district|Nadia]]. His father, Madhu Goswami, was a well-known freedom fighter in the area. His mother, Sabita Goswami, worked as a school teacher. At the age of eight, he lost his father and was raised by his mother. Joy attended Ranaghat High School but dropped out from his courses in class 11.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Goswami |first1=Joy |title=Selected poems |last2=Chattarji |first2=Sampurna |date=2018 |publisher=Harper Perennial |isbn=978-93-5277-497-5 |location=Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India}}</ref>

===Early writing===
As a quiet kid, Joy kept a journal. One day, his brother found it and read his poems out loud to friends, humiliating him. He decided to stop writing but later changed his mind. To protect his thoughts, he wrote in a way that would confuse anyone who tried to read them. He said, “There was this simultaneous process of trying to give vent to my thoughts as well as an attitude of trying to hide what I was trying to express. That is what I would call the birth of metaphor.”<ref name=":0" /> Thus at 13, he wrote his first poem about the [[ceiling fan]] in his room.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2007-06-16 |title=Celebrated Bengali poet crosses language barrier |url=https://twocircles.net/2007jun16/celebrated_bengali_poet_crosses_language_barrier.html |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=TwoCircles.net |language=en-US}}</ref>

His poem was first published at 19 in three magazines: ''Simanta Sikha'', ''Paddokhep'', and ''Homsikha''. For the next 15–16 years, he wrote extensively for [[Little magazine|little magazines]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=জয় গোস্বামী |url=https://www.milansagar.com/kobi/joy_goswami/kobi-joygoswami.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713030116/https://www.milansagar.com/kobi/joy_goswami/kobi-joygoswami.html |archive-date=July 13, 2024 |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=www.milansagar.com |language=Bn}}</ref>
===Career===
His first poetry collection, ''Christmas o Sheeter Sonnetguchcho'', was published in 1976 with only eight poems. He financed the publication with 145 INR, borrowed from his mother. His first poem in [[Desh (magazine)|Desh]] appeared in 1976. In 1978, he again relied on his mother's support to publish his second book, ''[[Pratnjiv (book)|Pratnjiv]]''. His third collection, ''[[Aleya Hrod (book)|Aleya Hrod]]'', was published in 1981 after poet [[Shankha Ghosh]] helped him find a publisher.

After thirty years in Ranaghat, he returned to Kolkata where he has continued to live ever since.

In 2001, he joined the [[International Writing Program]] at the [[University of Iowa]], sponsored by the [[U.S. Department of State]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Subramaniam |first=Arundhathi |title=Joy Goswami (poet) - India - Poetry International |url=https://poetryinternationalweb.org/pi/site/poet/item/2722/27/Joy-Goswami |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241108085338/https://poetryinternationalweb.org/pi/site/poet/item/2722/27/Joy-Goswami |archive-date=November 8, 2024 |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=poetryinternationalweb.org}}</ref>

In a review for [[Anandabazar Patrika]], [[Bhaskar Chakraborty]] praised Joy Goswami’s second poetry collection, ''[[Pratnajeev (book)|Pratnajeev]]'', writing, “Most poems in this collection are long, each masterful in its form. [...] His words pour like a fountain, erasing the boundaries of time—at times imagining a world millions of years ahead, at others capturing the mysteries of the present. His themes are sweeping, filled with haunting imagery—scorched earth, fear, and an unexpected cast of lovers, ghosts, and witches.”<ref>{{Cite book |last=চক্রবর্তী |first=ভাস্কর |title=গদ্যসমগ্র |publisher=Bhashabandhan Prakashani |edition=1st |location=Kolkata-32 |publication-date=2013 |page=238 |language=bn |trans-title=A collection of prose}}</ref>

His mother died in 1984. He has received the Anita-Sunil Basu Award from the Bangla Academy, Govt of W.B. the prestigious [[Ananda Purashkar]] in 1989 for [[Ghumiyechho, Jhaupata? (poetry collection)|''Ghumiyechho, Jhaupata?'' (Have you slept, pine leaf?)]] and the [[Sahitya Akademi]] Award, 2000 for his anthology [[Pagali Tomar Sange|''Pagali tomara sange'' (With you, O crazy girl)]]. He possesses a great deal of admiration for [[Mamata Banerjee|Mamata Bandyopadhyay]] and openly extends his support for her, for which he has also been criticised.

In 1976, he joined [[Desh (magazine)|Desh]] as a staff writer and later served as the magazine's poetry editor. In his role, he brought diverse poets into the fold of the Ananda Bazar Patrika group, and bridged the gap between alternative literary circles and a wider middle-class readership in the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chakravarty |first=Prasanta |title=Divergences within amalgamation in contemporary Bengali poetry |url=https://www.goethe.de/ins/in/lp/prj/ptp/mag/en15311671.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205024722/https://www.goethe.de/ins/in/lp/prj/ptp/mag/en15311671.htm |archive-date=December 5, 2023 |access-date=March 24, 2025 |website=Goethe Institut}}</ref>

After leaving [[Desh (magazine)|Desh]], he became a staff writer at [[Sangbad Pratidin]], where he wrote a Sunday column on poetry criticism. He was laid off from the position in 2019. After knowing about his condition, the [[Chief minister (India)|state CM]] [[Mamata Banerjee]] appointed him in a state-funded institution.<ref>{{Cite book |last=গোস্বামী |first=জয় |title=কবিতা প্রকাশের ৫০ বছরে |date=2024 |language=Bn}}</ref>

In 2024, Goswami said he'd quit publishing poems but keep writing.<ref>{{Cite news |last=সংবাদদাতা |first=আনন্দবাজার অনলাইন |title=৫০ বছর পূর্তিতেই কবিতা প্রকাশে ইতি দিলেন জয় গোস্বামী, কেন? |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/west-bengal/kolkata/poet-joy-goswami-declares-not-to-publish-poems-any-further-dgtl/cid/1487326 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009074659/https://www.anandabazar.com/west-bengal/kolkata/poet-joy-goswami-declares-not-to-publish-poems-any-further-dgtl/cid/1487326 |archive-date=2024-10-09 |access-date=2025-04-13 |work=[[Anandabazar Patrika]] |language=bn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=I’ve received enough from poetry: Joy Goswami at DL Block |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/news/ive-received-enough-from-poetry-joy-goswami-at-dl-block/cid/1994815 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240617020903/https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/news/ive-received-enough-from-poetry-joy-goswami-at-dl-block/cid/1994815 |archive-date=2024-06-17 |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=[[Telegraph India]]}}</ref>

==Works==
{{Incomplete list|date=March 2025}}
===Poems===
====''Malatibala Balika Vidyalaya (Malatibala Girls' School)''====
The second poem from ''Aaj Jodi Amake Jiges Koro (If You Ask Me Today)'' is a 32-line monologue that follows a woman reminiscing her teenage love for Benimadhob—who never noticed her and was already engaged. The poem explores Bengali society’s subtle prejudice against dark-skinned, lower-middle-class people. It is noted for its musicality, which is difficult to preserve in translation. In 1996, Samir Chattopadhyay and [[Lopamudra Mitra]] adapted it into a widely popular song, now available on YouTube. Some of the lines are also frequently [[Allusion|alluded]] to in literature and media.
===Short stories===
====''Mallar Jekhane Name''====
Joy Goswami's best-known short stories include ''Mallar Jekhane Name (Where Mallar Descends)''. "Mallar," or "Malhar" is a [[Malhar|Hindustani classical raga]] linked to [[Heavy rain (meteorology)|heavy rains]].

Set in the 1990s, the story follows a middle-aged poet and a college girl who meets him daily on his commute. A fervent admirer, she bombards him with questions about his works, making the introverted poet uneasy as it draws curious stares from fellow passengers. The poet never gets angry at her—because he doesn’t know how. At times, something close to anger stirs within him. But he swallows it.

The story unfolds in three parts. In the first, they converse on his way to work. In the second, the poet, lost in thought, reflects on his life—his relationships, a clash with a political figure at a poetry summit, his sexuality, his writing—and finds solace in the raga, [[Malhar|Mallar]]. In the third part, on a train to a literary summit, the girl confesses to writing him a letter she never sent, calling it an imaginary conversation. She keeps ticket stubs from their meetings, which he finds absurd. She asks him to read poems at the summit from her favorite book of his. She won’t stop insisting.

Then, all of a sudden, the poet imagines Mallar descending. Outside, the sun blazes, and the train paces, but the world around him fades into a night sky sealed with heavy rain. He tries to resist, but he cannot. He imagines the earth’s heartbeat rising from the deepest trench—a deep, pounding rhythm.

And the girl asks, "You'll read it, won’t you? Please say you will."

The poet, unable to control his rage, gets up on his feet. Blood flickers in his eyes. His hands, his legs, tremble violently. And he wails: "Say one more word, and I’ll tear your tongue out! Where were you when I was twenty-five? Where were you?!"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goswami |first=Joy |title=Galpasamagra |publisher=Dey's Publishing |isbn=978-93-89377-51-4 |location=Kolkata |publication-date=2020 |pages=9–19 |language=bn |trans-title=Short story collection}}</ref>
==Political views==

Joy Goswami has consistently raised his voice against state brutalities, genocide, and [[Weapon of mass destruction|weapons of mass destructions]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=writers |url=https://www.almostisland.com/writers |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=almostisland |language=en-US}}</ref> After India's [[Pokhran-II|second nuclear test]] in May 1998—coincidentally on the anniversary of his mother's death 14 years earlier—he wrote the poem ''[[Ma Nishad (poem)|Ma Nishad]]'', published in ''[[Desh (magazine)|Desh]]''. The title references [[Valmiki]]’s first shloka, "mā niṣāda pratiṣṭhā…," spoken after he witnessed a hunter kill a male crane while it was mating.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nathan |first=Leonard |date=1995 |title=Paths of the Snow Bunting: Towards a Poetics of Bird-Watching |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4229232 |journal=Manoa |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=33–45 |jstor=4229232 |issn=1045-7909}}</ref>

Since the [[2002 Gujarat riots]], he has been a vocal critic of the [[Modi government]] and its [[Hindu nationalism|Hindu nationalist]] agenda.<ref>{{Cite web |last=MP |first=Team |date=2019-12-14 |title=Intellectuals condemn passing of CAB |url=https://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/intellectuals-condemn-passing-of-cab-391100 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250322093530/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://www.millenniumpost.in/amp/kolkata/intellectuals-condemn-passing-of-cab-391100 |archive-date=March 22, 2025 |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=MillenniumPost |language=en}}</ref> One of his poems, written in the aftermath of the Gujarat riots, includes these lines: "Uṭ chalechhe mukhṭi tule — uṭ. Kī bolchhe se? Gujrat riot broke out...,"{{refn|group=lower-alpha|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]: উট চলেছে মুখটি তুলে— উট। কী বলছে সে? Gujrat riot broke out...}} ({{lit|The camel walks, head held high—camel. What does it say? Gujarat riot broke out...}}). The final word (uṭ, pronounced [[Help:IPA/English|''/uʈ/'']], which means "camel") in the first sentence, borrowed from a children's rhyme, [[Alliteration|alliterates]] with the English word "out."<ref name=":12">{{Cite news |last=মজুমদার |first=অভীক |title=অণু থেকে অতিকায় |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/essays/a-special-write-about-the-indian-poet-joy-goswami/cid/1559107 |work=[[Anandabazar Patrika]]}}</ref>

Following the [[Nandigram violence|2007 Nandigram-incident]], he publicly condemned the [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front government]] and published the poetry collection ''Shasoker Proti'' ''(For The Oppressor)''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roy |first=Ananya |title=Calcutta requiem: gender and the politics of poverty |date=2008 |publisher=Pearson |isbn=978-81-317-1299-3 |edition=1st impression |location=Delhi}}</ref> He joined protests alongside prominent writers, singers, actors, and journalists.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nandigram – November 2007 violence: Archives |url=https://sanhati.com/news/408/ |access-date=March 30, 2025 |website=sanhati.com}}</ref> In several essays, he also criticized [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]], who had close ties to then-chief minister [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee|Buddhadeb Bhattacharya]], for supporting the administration.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goswami |first=Joy |title=Gosaibagan Volume 3 |isbn=9789385392191}}</ref>

On March 21, 2022, [[Trinamool Congress|AITC]] leader Bhadu Sheikh was murdered at the Bogtui intersection in [[Rampurhat]], [[Birbhum district|Birbhum]]. That night, a riot broke out, resulting in the deaths of eight people who were burned alive.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Singh |first=Shiv Sahay |date=2022-12-13 |title=Accused in Bogtui killing case dies in CBI custody |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/accused-in-bogtui-killing-case-dies-in-cbi-custody/article66255796.ece |access-date=2025-03-23 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> In response, Goswami published [[Dagdha (poetry collection)|''Dagdha'' ''(দগ্ধ)'']], a collection of eight poems. Though he did not explicitly criticize the [[Government of West Bengal|ruling government]], he concluded the book saying, "This collection of poems is the helpless grief of the child, the mother who could not know in her lifetime which group has the right to live or die."<ref>{{Cite news |last=সংবাদদাতা |first=নিজস্ব |title=Joy Goswami: দেড় দশক পরে জয়ের কাব্যগ্রন্থ, নন্দীগ্রাম দিয়েছিল 'শাসকের প্রতি', বগটুই দিল 'দগ্ধ' |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/west-bengal/eminent-poet-joy-goswami-s-new-poetry-book-depicts-pain-of-bogtui-massacre-dgtl/cid/1335762 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009074713/https://www.anandabazar.com/west-bengal/eminent-poet-joy-goswami-s-new-poetry-book-depicts-pain-of-bogtui-massacre-dgtl/cid/1335762 |archive-date=2024-10-09 |access-date=2025-03-23 |language=bn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title='শাসকের প্রতি'র পর 'দগ্ধ', নন্দীগ্রাম আন্দোলনের পর বগটুই কাণ্ড নিয়ে নতুন কাব্যগ্রন্থ জয় গোস্বামীর |url=https://www.sangbadpratidin.in/entertainment/event/renowned-poet-joy-goswamis-new-book-dagdho-on-bogtui-massacre/ |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=[[Sangbad Pratidin]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Writing style==
Joy Goswami has been writing poetry for half a century on a wide range of topics—from the human mind, desires, and details of life to the very essence of human existence, as well as [[Pokhran-II|nuclear weapon tests]] and [[atomic theory]]. He has experimented with different forms and structures, causing his style to vary widely over the years, and some critics have compared it to that of [[Rabindranath Tagore]]. Yet, he says he has yet to find a definitive language that truly expresses his thoughts.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=মজুমদার |first=অভীক |title=অণু থেকে অতিকায় |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/essays/a-special-write-about-the-indian-poet-joy-goswami/cid/1559107 |work=[[Anandabazar Patrika]]}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
* In ''[[Shob Charitro Kalponik]]'' (2009), Joy Goswami appears reading poems he wrote for the film at director [[Rituparno Ghosh]]'s request, who was also editor of ''Robbar'', a supplement of ''[[Sangbad Pratidin]]'', at the time.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ghosh |first1=Rituparno |title=Rituparno Ghosh: cinema, gender and art |last2=Sangeeta |first2=Datta |last3=Bakshi |first3=Kaustav |last4=Dasgupta |first4=Rohit K. |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis group |isbn=978-0-8153-9552-2 |series=South Asian history and culture |location=London New York, [New York]}}</ref>

==Selected works==
===Poetry collections===
* Christmas o Sheeter Sonnetguchchho (1976)
* Pratnajiv
* Aleya Hrod (1981)
* Unmader Pathokromo (1986)
* Bhutumbhogoban (1988)
* Ghumiyechho, Jhaupata? (1989)
* Aj Jadi Amake Jigyes Karo
* Santansantati
* Moutat Maheswar
* Sakalbelar Kobi
* Mrito Nagorir Raja
* Bhaloti Basibo
* Phulgachhe Ki Dhulo (2011)
* Atmiyoswajan (2011)
* Shanti (2023) ( Barnik Prokashon)

===Novels===
* Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo
* Saanjhbatir Roopkathara
* Sab Andhakar Fulgach
*
* Bhenge Jawar Pore

==Publication list==
{{Incomplete list|date=March 2025}}

Published works by Jaya Gosvāmī (which is how his name is transliterated in the Library's catalog and Name Authority File) listed in the [[Library of Congress Catalog]]:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CNT=25+records+per+page&CMD=nkey+%22Gosv%C2%AFam%C2%AFi+Jaya%22 |title=LC Catalog - Legacy Catalog Retired |access-date=3 November 2005 |archive-date=24 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524101352/https://catalog.loc.gov/legacy.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

* Bajrabidyu_t-bharti khātā. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1995. {{ISBN|81-7215-399-6}}
* Bishāda. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1998. {{ISBN|81-7215-786-X}}
* Hrdaye premera ´sīrsha. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1994. {{ISBN|81-7215-293-0}}
* Jaga_tabāri. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 2000. {{ISBN|81-7756-107-3}}
* Kabitāsamgraha. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, <1997–2001>
* Mā nishāda. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1999. {{ISBN|81-7215-946-3}}
* Manoramera upanyāsa. Kalakātā : Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1994. {{ISBN|81-7215-222-1}}
* Oh svapna! Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1996. {{ISBN|81-7215-512-3}}
* Pāgalī, tomāra sange. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1994. {{ISBN|81-7215-290-6}}
* Pātāra po'sāka. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1997. {{ISBN|81-7215-672-3}}
* Pretapurusha o anupama kathā. Kalakātā: Ānanda, 2004. {{ISBN|81-7756-402-1}}
* Raudrachāyāra samkalana. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1998. {{ISBN|81-7215-821-1}}
* Sam'sodhana bā kātākuti. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 2001. {{ISBN|81-7756-124-3}}
* Sānjhabātira rūpakathārā. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1998. {{ISBN|81-7215-839-4}}
* Seisaba seyālara. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1994. {{ISBN|81-7215-316-3}}
* Shanjhbati's dreams = Shanjhbatir rupkathara. New Delhi: Srishti Publishers & Distributors, 2004. {{ISBN|81-88575-43-7}}
* Suranga o pratirakshā. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1995. {{ISBN|81-7215-420-8}}
* Sūrya-porā chāi. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1999. {{ISBN|81-7215-773-8}}
* Yārā brshtite bhijechila. Kalakātā: Ānanda Pābali'sārsa, 1998. {{ISBN|81-7215-566-2}}

==Awards and honours==
* [[Anita-Sunil Basu Award from Bangla Akademi, W.B. Govt.]] (2017)
* [[Ananda Puraskar]] (1990), (1998)
* [[Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers|Sahitya Akademi Award]] (2000)
* [[Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad]] Lifetime Achievement Award (2011)
* [[Rachana Samagra Purashkar]] (2011)
* [[Banga Bibhushan]] by West Bengal Government (2012)<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-05-20 |title=Banga Bibhushan award conferred on Suchitra Sen |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/banga-bibhushan-award-conferred-on-suchitra-sen/article3439790.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241207183038/https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/banga-bibhushan-award-conferred-on-suchitra-sen/article3439790.ece |archive-date=December 7, 2024 |access-date=2025-03-24 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060205/asp/look/story_5797945.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060912235516/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060205/asp/look/story_5797945.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 September 2006|title=Calcutta : Look|date=5 February 2006|work=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]]|access-date=9 July 2010}}</ref>
* D.Litt. by [[University of Calcutta]] (2015)
* D.Litt by [[North Bengal University]] (2015)
* D.Litt. by [[Kalyani University]] (2017)
* Sera Bangali by [[ABP Group]] (2017)
*[[Moortidevi Award]] (2017)

==Notes==
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==References==
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== External links ==
*[https://www.facebook.com/mohini.gupta28/videos/677076563497117 After Death Comes Water: An Evening of Poetry]. With Joy Goswami and [[Sampurna Chattarji]], [[World Poetry Day]] 2022, [[Mother Tongue Twisters]], 23 March 2022.
*[http://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/translations/poems/joygoswami_skye.html Translation of six poems]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080421131956/http://www.calcuttaweb.com/bangla/joy1.shtml Interview in Bengali]
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/23337485 The Funeral Song by Joy Goswami]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110412005405/http://www.dolchhut.com/review/bhaloti-basibo-joy-goswamis-new-book-of-poems/ Review by Bhoti Basibo on Joy Goswami]
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20171216144332/http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/2722/27/Joy-Goswami Poetry International page]}}
* [https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/joygoswami.html South Asian Literary Recordings Project]

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