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BIOGRAPHY Joy Goswami was born on November 10, 1954 in Kolkata . His family moved to Ranaghat , West Bengal shortly after and he has lived there ever since. Goswami was introduced and encouraged about poetry by his father, a well known political worker in the area. He lost his father at the age of six, after which the family was sustained by his mother, a teacher. She died in 1984. Goswami's formail education stopped early, in grade eleven. By this time he was already writing poetry. After a long period of writing in Little Magazine s and periodicals, his writing was finally published in the influential Desh Patrika . This brought his immediate critical acclaim and so long after his first poetry collection was published, named ''Christmas o Sheeter Sonnetguchchho'' (Sonets of Christmas and Winter). He received the prestigious Ananda Purashkar in 1989 for ''Ghumiyechho, Jhaupata?'' (Have you slept, Pine leaf?) and the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2000 for his anthology ''Pagali tomara sange''(With you, O crazy girl). WORKS
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 :
Some MP3 recordings of him reading his poetry, along with a photograph, can be found at the South Asian Literary Recordings Project page. SAMPLE WORK ''বাত্সরিক'' (Batshorik) নাম লিখেছি একটি তৄণে (Naam likhecchi ekti trine) আমার মায়ের মৄত্যুদিনে (Amar mayer mrityudine) ''Yearly'' With a grass I have written the name On the day my mother died ''Ghumiyechho, Jhaupata?'' AWARDS
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