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Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay

1898 - 1971

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Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (23 July 1898 – 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay has received more than 338,354 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay is the 3,356th most popular writer (up from 3,911th in 2019), the 426th most popular biography from India (up from 451st in 2019) and the 65th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 3,356 out of 7,302. Before him are Karl Ove Knausgård, Eysteinn Erlendsson, Morgan Robertson, Bernardo Guimarães, Carmen Laforet, and Rhianus. After him are Al-A'sha, Rose Wilder Lane, Jean-Claude Izzo, Gunnar Heiberg, Bharatendu Harishchandra, and Hồ Xuân Hương.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 137. Before him are Pavel Urysohn, Helen B. Taussig, Erich Bey, Dámaso Alonso, Anthony McAuliffe, and Luís Carlos Prestes. After him are Mikhail Koshkin, Hisamuddin of Selangor, Mikhail Koltsov, Josep Sunyol, Karl Koller, and Lev Knipper. Among people deceased in 1971, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 114. Before him are Lester Germer, Gaito Gazdanov, Ignazio Giunti, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Henri Tomasi, and Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe. After him are Josef Košťálek, Armando Picchi, Kathleen Lonsdale, Nikola Kotkov, Hiratsuka Raichō, and Dimitrios Loundras.

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In India

Among people born in India, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 426 out of 1,861. Before him are Jai Singh II (1688), Ibn Warraq (1946), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), Satya Nadella (1967), Hemu (1501), and Guru Har Rai (1630). After him are Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), M. F. Husain (1915), Udham Singh (1899), Jacques Lauriston (1768), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), and Sukhdev Thapar (1907).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 65. Before him are Suryakant Tripathi (1899), R. K. Narayan (1906), Idries Shah (1924), Ashapurna Devi (1909), Ibn Warraq (1946), and Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908). After him are Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), and Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896).

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