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WRITER

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 311,924 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay is the 3,924th most popular writer (down from 3,775th in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from India (down from 404th in 2019) and the 74th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 3,924 out of 5,755Before him are Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Brigitte Hamann, Mike Resnick, Karl Ove Knausgård, Gheorghe Asachi, and Gordon Willis. After him are Vladimir Megre, Emmanuel Bove, Yoshiki Tanaka, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, and Gabriel Chevallier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 161Before him are Boughera El Ouafi, Anthony McAuliffe, Simon Vestdijk, Hugh O'Flaherty, Arend Heyting, and Louis Adamic. After him are Emmanuel Bove, Aksel Airo, Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Félix Sesúmaga, Renée Adorée, and Bessie Love. Among people deceased in 1971, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 126Before him are Richard Montague, Bengt Ekerot, Wynton Kelly, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Shunryū Suzuki, and Simon Vestdijk. After him are Joseph Helffrich, Josef Košťálek, Jean-Pierre Monseré, Guillermo León Valencia, John Dall, and Cyril of Bulgaria.

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In India

Among people born in India, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 455 out of 1,493Before him are Derek Prince (1915), Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888), Nirmal Verma (1929), Mahadev Desai (1892), Birju Maharaj (1937), and Saint Alphonsa (1910). After him are Jagat Gosain (1573), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Suriya (1975), Dharamvir Bharati (1926), Amjad Khan (1940), and Janaki Ammal (1897).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 74Before him are Nagarjun (1911), Arundhati Roy (1961), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Yashpal (1903), Nirmal Verma (1929), and Mahadev Desai (1892). After him are Dharamvir Bharati (1926), Kamini Roy (1864), Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), Kamala Surayya (1934), Jayakanthan (1934), and Kedarnath Singh (1934).