Prabir Kumar Goswami | |
Native Name: | শ্রীপারাবত (প্রবীর কুমার গোস্বামী) |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Death Place: | Kolkata, India |
Alma Mater: | Scottish Church College Calcutta University |
Nationality: | British Indian, Indian |
Relatives: | Rebanta Goswami (Brother), Amiya Bhushan Majumdar (cousin),Advaita Acharya, Bijoy Krishna Goswami, Dwijendralal Ray |
Birth Place: | Amla Sadarpur, Kusthia, Undivided Bengal (Now in Bangladesh) |
Pseudonym: | Sree Parabat |
Occupation: | Writer, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Kolkata Police.[1] |
Sree Parabat or Sri Parabat (1 January 1927 – 2 November 2010) was a Bengali-language novelist from Kolkata, India, known mainly for his historical novels. His novels include Ami Sirajer Begum, Mamtaz Duhita Jahanara, and Aravalli Thekey Agra. Sree Parabat is a pen-name, the actual name of the author was Prabir Kumar Goswami.
He was born to Sudhir Kumar Goswami and Preetibindu Devi at his maternal grandparents' home in Cooch Behar on 1 January 1927. The Goswami family’s ancestral home was in Amla Sadarpur, Nadia district in undivided Bengal, (presently Kusthia district in Bangladesh), Both his parents belonged to a very educated and literary hindu families. On his father's side he belonged to the famous hindu Baishnava family " Advaita Parivāra " which was the 13th generation of direct descendant of Sree Sree Advaita Acharya, who was the childhood teacher and later a close associate and follower of Chaitanya. Prominent hindu social reformer Bijoy Krishna Goswami also belongs to the same holy family and was the 7th generation direct descendant of Sree Sree Advaita Acharya. Novelist and science fiction writer Rebanta Goswami was his own younger brother and Amiya Bhushan Majumdar a well-known novelist was the first cousin of Sree Parabat on the maternal side.
The novel Ami Sirajer Begum was made into a multi-episode TV show starting from 10 December 2018.
He died on 2 November 2010 at his Kolkata house. During the last 15 years of his life, he lived in the Santoshpur, Kolkata. Before that he lived in Beliaghata, Park Circus and, even before, North Kolkata.