Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay

Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay

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Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Profile

  • Name:
  • Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
  • Born:
  • July 23, 1898
  • Died:
  • September 14, 1971
  • Father:
  • Haridas Bandyopadhyay
  • Mother:
  • Prabhabati Devi
  • Spouse:
  • Umashashi Devi

Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay Biography

Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay was a leading novelist of Bengali language. He owns 65 novels, 53 story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies and 2 travel stories in his credit. He was the second writer to receive Jnanpith Award, the highest civilian honour in literature, given by Government of India. He received it in the year 1966 for his Bengali work, Ganadevta. He has also received Rabindra Puraskar (1955), Sahitya Akademi award (1956), Padma Shri in 1962 and Padma Bhushan (1969). He also received the Sharat Smriti Puraskar and the Jagattarini Gold Medal from the Calcutta University. He was also active in politics. He has served Rajya Sabha between 1960 and 1966.   

 

Bandyopadhyay was born at his ancestral home at Labhpur village of Bengal provinces. He passed the Matriculation examination from Labhpur Jadablal H. E. School in 1916. He studied at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta and Ashutosh College. He joined the non-cooperation movement and couldn’t complete his studies for this reason. Prolonged illness was another reason. In 1932, he met Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan for the first time. His first novel ‘Chaitali Ghurni’ was published on the same year. Bandyopadhyay was married to Umashashi Devi in 1916.

 

His novels are rich in material and potentials. Tarasankar belongs to that group of writers of the third decades of 20th century who broke the poetic tradition in novels. He added romance to human relationship and his works were accepted it in a new way allowing the reader to breathe the truth of human relationship. His poetry collection was published with the name Tripatra (1926). But later on, he concentrated most on novels, drama and short story collection. His best novels include – Panchagram, Hansuli Banker Upakatha, Aranyabahni, Yogobhrashta, Raikamal, Chhotoder Sandipan Pathshala, Shakkar Bai, Kishkindhya Kando, Shuksari Katha and much more. His short story collection includes – Chhalanamoyee, Tarasankarer Shrestha Galpa, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyayer Priyo Galpo, Swa-Nirbachito Galp and Gobin Singher Ghora.

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Updated: November 22, 2013

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