Nabarun Bhattacharya (23 June 1948 – 31 July 2014) was an Indian writer in Bengali language. He was born at Baharampur (Berhampur), West Bengal. He was the only child of actor and playwright Bijon Bhattacharya and writer and activist Mahashweta Devi. His maternal grandfather was the well-known writer from the Kallol era, Manish Ghatak. Visionary filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak was his great uncle. His novel, Herbert (1993), was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, and adapted into a film of the same name in 2005, by Suman Mukhopadhyay.

Works
The characters called Fyataru
His magic realist writings introduced a strange set of human beings to Bengali readers, called Fyataru (fyat: the sound created by kites while they are flown; otherwise, fyat has also a hint of someone worthless, deriving from the words foto, faaltu; uru: related to flying), who are an anarchic underclass fond of sabotage and are capable of flying whenever they utter the mantra 'fyat fyat sh(n)aai sh(n)aai' (This mantra was made into a song by the popular Bangla band Chandrabindoo in one of its albums). They appear in his books Mausoleum, Kaangaal Maalshaat, Fatarur Bombachaak, Fyatarur Kumbhipaak and Mobloge Novel. Suman Mukhopadhyay, who was basically from a theatrical background, dramatized Kangal Malsat.

Major works
Kangal Malshat (কাঙাল মালসাট) (Hooghly: Saptarshi Prakashan, 2003)
Herbert (Kolkata: Deys, 1994)
Lubdhak (Barasat: Abhijan Publishers, 2006)
Ei Mrityu Upotyoka Aamaar Desh Na (Hooghly: Saptarshi, 2004)
Halaljhanda o Onyanyo (Hooghly: Saptarshi, 2009)
Mahajaaner Aayna (Kolkata: Bhashabandhan, 2010)
Fyaturur Kumbhipak (Kolkata: Bhashabandhan)
Raater Circus (Kolkata: Bhashabandhan)
Anarir Naarigyan (Kolkata: Bhashabandhan)
Joratali (Kolkata: Bhashabandhan, Posthumous)
Mablage Novel(Kolkata:Bhashabandhan, Posthumous)