Bengal Nights

La Nuit Bengali (translated as  "Bengal Nights") is a 1933 Romanian novel written by the author and philosopher Mircea Eliade.

It is a fictionalized account of the love story between Eliade, who was visiting India at the time, and the young Maitreyi Devi (protégée of the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who became a famous writer herself). 

For many years, Maitreyi Devi was not aware that the story had been published. After reading it, she wrote her own version of the relationship in 1974. Entitled "Na Hanyate", it was originally published in Bengali. It was published in English as "It Does Not Die".

In fulfillment of a promise Eliade made to Maitreyi that his novel would not be published in English during their lifetimes, an English translation, of Mayitreyi, "Bengal Nights" did not appear until 1993. In 1994, the University of Chicago Press published the two works in English as companion volumes.