| Amar Mitra | |
| Native Name: | অমর মিত্র |
| Birth Date: | 30 August 1951 |
| Birth Place: | Basirhat, North 24 Pgs. West Bengal |
| Occupation: | Civil service, Bengali writer |
| Spouse: | Mitali Mitra |
| Family: | Manoj Mitra (brother) |
| Awards: | Sahitya Akademi 2006 Bankim Puraskar 2001 Katha Award for Short Story 1998 Sarat Puraskar 2002 Gajendrakumar and Sumathnath Award 2010O. Henry Award 2022 |
Amar Mitra (Bengali: অমর মিত্র (born 30 August 1951) is an eminent writer in Bengali living in Kolkata, West Bengal. His elder brother is notable actor Manoj Mitra.[1]
After partition of India in 1947, Mitra family was migrated from Satkhira, Khulna,East Pakistan and came to Basirhat. His father was a Govt.servant and opted to Indian Govt. after Partition. He was born in the year 1951 in Basirhat.[2] He was a student of chemistry, His father's name is Ashok Kumar Mitra. He has been working for the Land Reforms Department of The Government of West Bengal.
Mitra is a veteran Bengali novelist and short story writer. He also edited number of books. He is writing for over five decades which includes 30 published novels, number of short-story collections as well as few books for children. Mitra participated in the First forum of Asian Countries' writers held in Nur Sultan city in Kazakhstan in September 2019 and awarded O. Henry Award for his short story, The Old man of Kusumpur.[3] [4] [5] He was awarded with Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Dhrubaputra (Bengali: <big>ধ্রুবপুত্র</big>) in 2006.[6] [7] He has also received the Bankim Puraskar from Government of West Bengal for his novel, Aswacharit (Bengali: <big>অশ্বচরিত</big>) in 2001,[8] Mitra received Mitra O Ghosh award in the year 2010, Sharat Puroskar in the year 2018.