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            | Born                   in 1946,  Prof. Sumita Chakrabarti was brought up                   in Dhanbad Dist. (Presently Jharkhand). Her father Dr. Bibhuti                   Bhushan Sarkar was a medical practitioner by profession. Her interest for Bengali Literature grew from the very childhood.                   She studied in Kulti Girls High School. This is a place where                   the Bengali culture mixed with non-Bengali culture, so the                   children of this place learn Bengali, Hindi & English                   language. Sumita grew up like wise. Her passion was for Bengali,                   English, Sanskrit and History in her school days. After passing                   school final she got admitted to Asansol Girls College. She                   stood 1st class 2nd in pre - university examination and in                   graduation she stood 1st in Burdwan University in Bengali                   (Hons) and got the National and DPI Scholarship. In 1967 she                   passed M.A.(Bengali)                   in 1st Class 1st and won the gold Medal. She is married                   to Mr. PRABIR Kr. CHAKRABARTI (1974). | 
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            In 1972 she got the Phd. in Bengali under the supervision                     of Late Prof. Jibendra Sinha Roy. She started her career from                     a newly established college in Dhanbad. Later she joined                     Bhagalpur University as lecturer in Bengali. Then she joined                     Burdwan University. She was the Dean of Arts, Commerce and                     Management faculties in Burdwan University (2004 - 2006). After retirement she was formerly attached to Aliah University, Park Circus, Kolkata. She is also invited to different universities as guest faculty regularly.  
               
She comes to world of writing in 1975 and started writing                       in various                         magazines. Her 1st publication was "Poet Amiya Chakraborty"                         in 1981 and after that her writings are regularly published. 
 
Apart from writing                           she is regularly taking part in debates, discussions and                           seminars in various organisation,  e,g, in Asiatic                           Society, Tagore Research Institute, Sahitya Akademi, Paschim                           Banga Bangla Akademi, Centre for Advance Studies in Simla.                           She was the 1st Coordinator, Centre of Advanced Studies,                 Bengali in Burdwan University. Now she is associated with different projects of Nazrul Centre for Social and Cultural Studies in Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal. | 
             
          
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            | She has                   been awarded by numerous recognition for her writing and research                 work on Bengali Literature such as: - | 
             
          
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                | SAHITYA                         SETU PURASKAR | 
                1994 | 
                TARASHANKAR                         PADAK | 
                1994 | 
               
              
                | INDU                         BASU SAHITYA PURASKAR | 
                1999 | 
                SARAT                         PURASKAR    | 
                2000 | 
               
              
                | SANSKRITIC                         KHABAR, PADAK | 
                2002 | 
                SUDHA                         BASU PURASKAR | 
                2005 | 
               
              
                NAZRUL                         PURASKAR 
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                2007 | 
                MAHADIGANTA PURASKAR  | 
                2013 | 
               
              
                | NAZRUL SAMMAN | 
                2017 | 
                NATUN GATI NAZRUL SMARAK SAMMAN | 
                2013 | 
               
              
                | JATIYA KABI KAZI NAZRUL UNIVERSITY MYMANSINGH, BANGLADESH | 
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                AHARMISH SAMMAN | 
                2017 | 
               
              
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                KARIGAR PURASKAR | 
                2017 | 
               
              
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                P.E.N. Literary Award for Critical writing  | 
                2017 | 
               
              
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                | With Prof. Kazuo Azuma  | 
                With Saumitra Chatterjee  | 
               
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