Islam (English spelling)

Japanese: イスラーム（英語表記）Islām

1899‐1976
A poet from Bengal, India. A Muslim. He lived in poverty from his childhood. During World War I, he volunteered for the Bengal regiment, and began to write poetry and stories in earnest while in Karachi. What made him famous was the long poem "Bipalabī" (The Rebel), published in 1921 after his return to India. His first collection of poems, "Agnibīṇā" (1922), which included this poem, foreshadowed the arrival of modern Bengali poetry, which would flourish in the 1930s. His representative collections of poems include "Biṣer Bāṅśi" (1924), "Sāmyabādī" (The Equalist), and "Chāyānaṭ" (both 1925).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1899‐1976
インド，ベンガル地方の詩人。イスラム教徒。幼時から貧困のうちに過ごした。第1次大戦の折ベンガル連隊に志願，カラチ滞在中，本格的に詩や物語を書き始める。彼を一躍有名にしたのは，帰国後1921年に発表した長編詩《反逆者Bipalabī》で，この詩を含む処女詩集《火のビーナAgnibīṇā》(1922)は，30年代に花開くベンガル現代詩の到来を予兆するものであった。代表的な詩集に《毒の笛Biṣer Bāṅśi》(1924)，《平等主義者Sāmyabādī》《チャーヤーナトChāyānaṭ》(ともに1925)等がある。

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