Editor | Dip Ghosh [1] Santu Bag, Goutam Mandal, Pramit Nandi and Supriyo Das |
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Categories | Speculative fiction |
Frequency | Quarterly [2] |
Publisher | Dip Ghosh |
Founder | Dip Ghosh and Supriyo Das |
Founded | 2015 |
First issue | January 26, 2016 |
Country | India |
Based in | Kolkata |
Language | Bengali |
Website | www |
Kalpabiswa is an online Bengali language science fiction literary magazine. [3] It is the first and biggest online sci-fi magazine published in Bengali language. [4] [5] Notable Bengali fiction writers like Adrish Bardhan, Ranen Ghosh, Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri, Anish Deb and Amitananda Das have contributed for the magazine.
From 2017, Kalpabiswa started to publish E-books of notable Bengali language books as well as the magazine itself. [6] From 2018, Kalpabiswa started its own Hardboard and Paperback publishing house named Kalpabiswa Publication. With the 200 years of creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kalpabiswa has published Frankenstein 200, an anthology of Frankenstein themed fictions and non fictions, as a tribute. [7] The book was launched at the campus of Jadavpur University during the first International Conference on science fiction held in Kolkata. [8] [9]
Kalpabiswa has published Bengali translations of notable authors like Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, [15] Arthur C. Clarke and many more classic science fiction masters. They have also translated more contemporary authors like Philip K. Dick, Elizabeth Bear and Cixin Liu.
From 2023, Kalpabiswa Publication and Pratisruti are sponsoring the only science fiction awards in Bengali. The Aschorjyo award, given for considerable contribution to Kalpabigyan is given by Kalpabiswa. The Bismoy science fiction award is given to the best newcomer in the field of Kalpabigyan by Pratisruti. [16]
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