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Books on Satyajit Ray
 
As in his life so after his passing, Satyajit Ray continues to inspire people at home and abroad to write on him and his art. A large number of books in English and various other languages have come out in India and abroad, showing how scholars arrive at newer interpretations while examining the works of the multi-faceted genius that Ray was.
 
Ray in London with Marie Seton,
his first biographer
The second edition of the first biography published in England
The latest edition of Marie Seton's book, 2003
Marie Seton, Portrait of a Director: Satyajit Ray, Dennis Dobson Books, London, 1971. Republished in India by Vikas, New Delhi, 1976. Revised edition published with Foreword by Sandip Ray by Penguin Books India in 2003.
   

 

   
Chidananda Dasgupta, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray, Vikas, New Delhi, 1980. Reprinted 1992.

Shyam Benegal, Satyajit Ray, Script of the film reconstructed by Aloknanda Dutta and Samik Bandyopadhyay, with additional notes from interviews recorded from the film but not used. Seagull Books, Calcutta, 1988.

Robin Wood, The Apu Trilogy, Praeger, London, 1971.

Andrew Robinson, Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, Andre Deutsch, London, 1989. Republished in India by Rupa in 1990.

Ben Nyce, Satyajit Ray: A Study of His Films, Praeger, New York, 1988.
 

 

 
 

Darius Cooper
, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000.


Firoze Rangoonwala, Satyajit Ray's Art, Clarion Books, New Delhi, 1980. Reprinted in 1990.

Nemai Ghosh: Satyajit Ray at 70, Photographs with Foreword by Henri Cartier Bresson. Eiffel Editions, Brussels, 1991. Republished in India by Orient Longman, Calcutta, 1993.

Suranjan Ganguly, Satyajit Ray: In Search of the Modern, The Scarecrow Press, Lenham, 2000.
 
 
 
Bidyut Sarkar, The World of Satyajit Ray, UBS, New Delhi, 1992.

Tarapada Benerjee, Satyajit Ray --- A Portrait in Black and White, Photographs with Foreword by Raghubir Singh. The volume contains the text of the Amal Bhattacharya Memorial Lecture by Ray. Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 1993.

Surabhi Banerjee, Satyajit Ray: Beyond the Frame, Allied Publishers, Calcutta, 1996.

Santi Das, Satyajit Ray: An Intimate Master, Allied Publishers, Calcutta, 1998.

Hirak Sen
, Ray A Glimpse, Photographs with Foreword by Sandip Ray, Lotus Print, Calcutta, 2001.

Nemai Ghosh and Andrew Robinson, A Vision of Cinema, Photographs, Edited with a Text and Captions by Andrew Robinson, I.B. Tauris & Co., London, 2005.

Parimal Ray, Visions of Ray, Presentation of Posters and Other Film Graphics of Satyajit Ray and Sandip Ray, Pratikshan, Calcutta, in association with Sahara India Pariwar, 2005.

Apu and After : Revisiting Ray's Cinema, Seagull, Oxford, UK.
 
 



In French


Henri Micciollo, Satyajit Ray, Editions L'Age d' Homme, Lausanne, 1981.


Nemai Ghosh: Satyajit Ray at 70, Photographs with Foreword by Henri Cartier Bresson. Eiffel Editions, Brussels, 1991.


Charles Tesson, Satyajit Ray, Cahiers du cinema, Paris, 1992.
 




 
In Italian

Ernesto Magrelli, Il Contrasto, Il Ritmo, L'Armonia: Il Cinema di Satyajit Ray, Di Giacomo Editore, Rome, 1984.

Centro Orientamento Educativo Aparajito, di Satyajit Ray, Milano, 1991.

In Finnish

Marie Seton, Satyajit Ray, Snomen Elokuva, Arkisto, Helsinki, 1981.

In Russian

Aida Sofjan, Satyajit Ray, Iskustvo (Art), Moscow, 1979.
 
The Finnish version of Marie Seton's book
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