Tarashankar bandopadhyay biography books pdf

Indian novelist (1898–1971)

Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (23 July 1898^[1] – 14 September 1971) was an Indian novelist who wrote in the Bengali language.

He wrote 65 novels, 53-story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies, 2 travel stories and composed several songs. He was awarded Rabindra Puraskar, Sahitya Akademi Award, Jnanpith Award, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.^[2][3][4] He was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 and posthumously nominated in 1972.^[5]

Biography

Bandyopadhyay was born at his ancestral home at Labhpur village in Birbhum district, Bengal Province, British India (now West Bengal, India) to Haridas Bandyopadhyay and Prabhabati Devi.^[6]

He passed the Matriculation examination from Labhpur Jadablal H.

E. School in 1916 and was later admitted first to St. Xavier's College, Calcutta and then to South Suburban College (now Asutosh College). While studyin