Jibanananda Das (February 18, 1899 - October 22, 1954; 8 Falgun, 1305 - 5 Kartik, 1371 BS) [2] was one of the leading modern Bengali poets, writers and essayists of the twentieth century. He was one of the pioneers of modernity in Bengali poetry. [1] Although Jibanananda's first poem was influenced by Nazrul Islam, he became an explorer of fundamental and different paths from the second poem. [1] By the time his birth centenary was being celebrated, he had become one of the most popular poets in Bengali literature. [3]

The world of traditional cosmos and fairy tales of rural Bengal has become pictorial in Jibanananda's poetry, in which he has become known as the 'poet of beautiful Bengal'. [1] [4] On the other hand, Annadashankar Roy has called him the 'purest poet'. [5] Many critics consider him to be the leading poet of post-Rabindranath and post-Nazrul Bengali literature. [6] In 1955, the book of best poetry won the Sahitya Akademi Award of the Government of India.

Although Jibanananda Das is mainly a poet, he has written and published several articles. However, before his death in 1954, he wrote 21 novels and 128 short stories, none of which were published during his lifetime. He has lived in extreme poverty. During the last half of the twentieth century, his influence on Bengali poetry was inexhaustibly imprinted.