The earliest extant work in Bengali literature is the Charyapada, a collection of Buddhist mystic songs in Old Bengali dating back to the 10th and 11th centuries.
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10 Facts About Bengali literature
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The timeline of Bengali literature is divided into three periods: ancient, medieval and modern .
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Kazi Nazrul Islam, notable for his activism and anti-British Bengali literature, was described as the Rebel Poet and is recognised as the National poet of Bangladesh.
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Bengali literature wrote Vande Mataram, the national song of India, which appears in his novel Anandamath .
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Pre-Tagore era saw an undercurrent of popular Bengali literature which was focused on daily life in contemporary Bengal.
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Bengali literature wrote essays, which were anthologized in Narir Mulya and Svadesh O Sahitya .
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Bengali literature mocked the charlatanism and vileness of various classes of the Bengali society in his stories written under the pseudonym "Parashuram".
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Bengali literature received the Rabindra Puraskar, the highest literary award of Paschimbanga in 1955 for Krishnakali Ityadi Galpa.
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Bengali literature started Goofi Books - where he writes and publishes children books focusing on developing values, empathy, creativity among children.
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West Bengal Bengali literature was influenced by a flock of modernist thinkers who steered Bangla literature.
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