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{{Short description|Indian writer (1914–1979)}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}}
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|birth_date = 17 November 1914
|birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
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|death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
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'''Kamal Kumar Majumdar''' ({{langx|bn|<big>কমলকুমার মজুমদার</big>}}) (17 November 1914 – 9 February 1979) was a major fiction-writer of the [[Bengali language]].<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UKfoHi5412UC | title = Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History |author1=Krishna Dutta |author2=Anita Desai | publisher = Signal Books | year = 2003 | isbn = 1-902669-59-2 | page = 47 | accessdate =2009-01-10}}</ref> The novel ''Antarjali Jatra'' is considered his most notable work.<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC | title = History of Indian Literature : [2].1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy | author = Sisir Kumar Das, various | publisher = Sahitya Akademi | year = 1995 | isbn = 81-7201-798-7 | page = 504 | accessdate =2009-01-10}}</ref>

==Early life==
Majumdar was the son of Prafullachandra Majumdar and Renukamoyee Majumdar. Prafullachandra used to serve in the police department. Renukamoyee had keen literary interest and thus Kamalkumar was exposed to modern literary thoughts and trends from his childhood.

His parents were originally from [[Taki (India)|Taki]], a town in the [[24 Parganas]] district (now in [[North 24 Parganas district]]), but the family shifted to Rikhia. Kamalkumar spent his childhood and adolescence in [[Kolkata]], India. He started his studies in a school called "Bishnupur Shiksha Sangha" in [[Bishnupur (South 24 Parganas)|Bishnupur]] but dropped formal studies before completing high school. For sometime, he studied [[Sanskrit]] in a ''[[Tol, Aurangabad|Tol]]'' and learned [[sitar]] from a local maestro. In 1937 he established a magazine called "Ushnish" where he used to write under his real name as well as a number of [[pen name]]s. But during 1944–45 he devoted himself mostly to painting. During 1937–38 he got numerous offers for going abroad which he refused.

Kamal Kumar was married to Dayamayee Majumdar and his younger brother was a renowned painter, [[Nirode Mazumdar]].<ref>{{cite book | title = Ardhek Jibon | author = Sunil Gangopadhyay | publisher = Ananda Publishers| author-link = Sunil Gangopadhyay }}</ref> Their younger sister [[Shanu Lahiri]] (1928 – 2013) was also a noted painter and art educator.<ref name=Telegraph>{{cite news|title=Shanu Lahiri dead|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130202/jsp/calcutta/story_16510654.jsp#.UUISlTeEnuo|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411220503/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130202/jsp/calcutta/story_16510654.jsp%23.UUISlTeEnuo|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 April 2013|newspaper=Telegraph (Calcutta)|accessdate=15 March 2013}}</ref>

==Works==

===Stories===
* Lal Juto (The Red Shoes)
* Madhu (Honey)
* Jal (Water )
* Teish (Twenty Three)
* [[Mallika Bahar (short story)|Mallika Bahar]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=গুহ |first=চিন্ময় |date=November 16, 2013 |title=সত্যিই কি তিনি 'রহস্যপুরুষ' |url=http://archives.anandabazar.com/archive/1131116/16pustak1.html |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=January 20, 2024 |work=[[Anandabazar Patrika]]}}</ref>
* Matilal Padri
* Tahader Katha (Their Tale)
* Fauji Banduk
* Neem Annapurna (19kamalkumar65)<ref name=handbook>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vfSPI2irzUgC | title = Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India |author1=Nalini Natarajan |author2=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-313-28778-3 | page = 60 |accessdate=2009-01-10}}</ref>
* Kayed Khana
* Rukminikumar
* Lupta Pujabidhi
* Khelar Bichar (Rules of the game)
* Khelar Drishyabali (Scenes of the game)
* Anitter Dayvag
* Konkal Eleigy (Elegy of the skeletons)
* Dwadash Mrittika
* Pingolabat
* Khelar aromvo (Start of the game)
* Bagan Keyari
* Aar chokhe jol
* Bagan Poridhi
* Kal e aatotai
* Justice Justice
* Prem (The Desire)
* Babu
* Princess
* Amod Bostumi
* Koschito Jibonchorit : tinti khosra

===Novels===
* Antarjali Jatra (The Final Passage, 1962)<ref name=handbook/>
* Golap Sundori
* Anila Smorone
* Shyam-Nouka
* Suhasinir Pometom
* Pinjare Bosiya Shuk
* Khelar Pratibha
* Shoborimangal

===Other work===
* Number of paintings
* Number of wood cut sculptures
* Edited a notable magazine named ANKA BHAVNA

A notable article on ANKA BHAVNA by mathematician Narayan Chandra Ghosh has been published in the December 2015 issue of Sristir Ekosh Satak Patrika. Before that he wrote articles on ANKA BHAVNA in Pratibimbha, Samakal 0 Bibriti. A book titled KAMAL KUMAR MAJUMDER o Anka Bhavan Edited by Narayan Ch Ghosh is most popular one.

==Movies based on his work==
The movies such as ''[[Neem Annapurna]]'' directed by [[Buddhadev Dasgupta]], ''[[Antarjali Jatra]]'' by [[Gautam Ghosh]], ''[[Sati (film)|Sati]]'' by [[Aparna Sen]] and ''[[Tahader Katha]]'' by Buddhadev Dasgupta were based on the novels and stories written by Majumdar. Gautam Ghosh made a Hindi movie named ''Mahayatra'' based on Majumdar's novel ''Antarjali Jatra''.<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC | title = Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema: historical record, the business and its future, narrative forms, analysis of the medium, milestones, biographies | author = [[Gulzar (lyricist)|Gulzar]], [[Govind Nihalani]], Saibal Chatterjee | publisher = Popular Prakashan | year = 2003 | isbn = 81-7991-066-0 | page = 337 | accessdate = 2009-01-10}}</ref>

''Lal Juto'', a Bengali film made by a student and based on Majumdar's short story of the same name, won the Best Creative Idea Award at the 11th [[Shanghai International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/dreams-spring-from-red-shoes-fetch-cinema-award/326389/ | title = Dreams spring from red shoes, fetch cinema award | publisher = Indian Express | date = 2008-06-23 | accessdate = 2009-01-10 | archive-date = 20 September 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120920173532/http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/dreams-spring-from-red-shoes-fetch-cinema-award/326389/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Subimal Mishra]]

==References==
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== External links ==

* Shoaib Gibran (2010), Kamalkumar Choritom, Shuddhasshar [http://www.shuddhashar.com www.shuddhashar.com], {{ISBN|978-984-8837-19-1}}
* Shoaib Gibran (2009), Kamalkumar Majumdarer Upannayasher Karankaushal,Bangla Academy,{{ISBN|984-07-4767-3}}
* ANKA BHAVNAR ANKA (2015) Narayan Ch Ghosh, December 2015 issue of Sristir Ekosh Satak Patrika.
* ANKA BHAVNA (2013) Narayan Ch Ghosh,Pratibimbha
* ANKA BHAVNA (2013) Narayan Ch Ghosh, Samakal 0 Bibriti
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