Jibanananda Das was born in 17 February, 1899 in Barisal, Bangladesh.
He is an acclaimed Bangali poet. Literal meaning of his name is Joy (ananda) of Life (Jivan)

Jibanananda was educated at Barisal BM College and Calcutta's Presidency College. He then worked as a teacher of English in Kolkata. In early 1930s, he was unemployed for several years, earning a meager amount as a private tutor of school students. His relatives got him jobs in Assam and Punjab, but he refused to leave Bengal as the pursuit of literature was far more important to him than financial stability. He briefly held teaching posts in Bagerhat and Delhi before returning to Barisal. He was a teacher in the B.M. College in Barisal from 1934 to 1947. After the partition of India in 1947, he returned to Kolkata. In Kolkata again he had to face unemployment for several years before getting a post of lecturer in the Howrah Girls' College in 1953.

Jibanananda is best known for his celebration of the natural beauty and the rural life of Bengal. His later poems, written in the 40s and early 50s, have far more complex character. The 2nd world war, the Great Bengal Famine [in which over 3 million people died], the Hindu-Muslim riots, and the partition of India, all have reflections in his later poems, where he implies a crisis of the civilization. Even in the early years of independence, he felt that corruption was destroying the Indian society.

Major work

--Jhora Palok (Fallen Feathers), 1927
--Dhushor Pandulipi (Grey Manuscript), 1936
--Bonolota Sen, 1942
--Mohaprithibi (Great Universe), 1944
--Shaat-ti Tarar Timir, 1948
--Ruposhi Bangla (Beautiful Bengal), written in 1934, published posthumously in 1957
--Bela Obela Kalbela (Times, Bad Times, End Times), 1961
--Aloprithibi (The World of Light), 1984

Achievement:

--His Best Poems won the Indian Sahitya Akademi Award in 1955.

He died in 22 October,1954 after being struck by a tram.