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প্রেমেন্দ্র মিত্র  |  Premendra Mitra

Legal name:  প্রেমেন্দ্র মিত্র

Transliterated name:  Mitra, Premendra

Birth place:  Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Birth date:  4 September 1904

Death date:  3 May 1988

Language:  Bengali

Bibliographic comments: Received the State Award for Children’s Literature in 1958 for his Ghana-da stories, also the Award

of the Sahitya Akademi. See also a complete list of Premendra Mitra's Ghana-da stories.

Biographic comments:  

Collections

Adventures of Ghanada

1982

<  2006 edition

National Book Trust

ISBN 81-237-4811-2

Paperback, 220 pages

45.00

Notes:

  •  Translated by Lila Majumdar.

  •  Illustrated by Subir Roy.

Fiction:  The Mosquito  //  The Insect  //  The Pebble  //  The Fish  //  The Hat  //  The Walking Stick  //  The Top  //  The

Phial  //  The Worm  //  The Duck  //  The Net  //  The Hole  //  Why Didn't the Earth Grow Bigger

Mosquito and Other Stories: Ghana-da’s Tall Tales

2004

Library edition: February 2009, 2nd English language PoD edition

Penguin India

ISBN 978-0-14-343035-3

B-format paperback, xii+170 pages

No cover price

Notes:

  •  Translated and with an Introduction by Amlan Das Gupta.

Fiction:  Mosquito  //  Pebble  //  Glass  //  Fish  //  Hat  //  Stick  //  Hole  //  Watch  //  Duck  //  Fly  //  Umbrella  //  No

Ice Cream for Ghana-da