Alokeranjan Dasgupta (6 October 1933 – 17 November 2020) was a Bengali poet who was the author of over 20 books of poetry.
After completing his Ph.D., Dasgupta taught comparative literature and Bengali at the Department of Comparative Literature (founded by Buddhadeva Bose) at Jadavpur University from 1957 until 1971,[1] when he went to Germany on a Humboldt Foundation Fellowship.
[3] Since 1971, he taught at the faculty of the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
The German government felicitated him for his contribution to bring together two different cultures together by awarding him the Goethe Medal in 1985.
[5] Dasgupta received many awards and honors including the Sudha Basu award from the University of Calcutta (1983), the Goethe Prize in Germany (1985), the Ananda Purashkar (1985), the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (1985), the Rabindra Puraskar (1987), the Sahitya Akademi Award (1992) for his book of poems Marami Karat (translated as The Mystical Saw and Other Poems)[1] and the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman (2005).