Bhattacharya, Lokenath
Entry updated 2 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1927-2001) Indian-born Bengali translator and author whose fourth novel, Bābughātera Kumāri Mācha (1972; trans Meenakshi Mukherjee as The Virgin Fish of Babughat 1975), focuses its moderately abstract depiction of a Near-Future Dystopian country on the fate of the inmates of a surreal Zoo-like Prison;stripped naked and forced into constant Sex under supervision, they attempt to cope with the desolation of the world. [JC]
Lokenath Bhattacharya
born Bhatpara, West Bengal, India: 9 October 1927
died Cairo, Egypt: 23 March 2001
works (highly selected)
- Bābughātera Kumāri Mācha (Karnataka, India: Manohara Grantha Mala, 1972) [binding unknown/]
- The Virgin Fish of Babughat (New Delhi, India: Arnold-Heinemann, 1975) [trans by Meenakshi Mukherjee of the above: hb/uncredited]
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