Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay

Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Born(1898-07-23)23 July 1898
Labhpur, Birbhum district, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died14 September 1971(1971-09-14) (aged 73)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • Politician
NationalityIndian
Notable awards
Spouse
Umashashi Devi
(m. 1916)
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
3 April 1960 – 2 April 1966
ConstituencyNominated

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]

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