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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. He was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 and posthumously nominated in 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay is the 4,030th most popular writer (down from 3,356th in 2019), the 548th most popular biography from India (down from 426th in 2019) and the 65th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 4,030 out of 7,302. Before him are Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, Innokenty Annensky, Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, Jacqueline de Romilly, Sven Aggesen, and Og Mandino. After him are Edwin Atherstone, René Guillot, Severus Sanctus Endelechius, Jan Wolkers, Davit Guramishvili, and Henry Bataille.

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Among people born in 1898, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 177. Before him are Rudolph Maté, Pyotr Leshchenko, Emmanuel Bove, Akmal Ikramov, Bessie Love, and Aksel Airo. After him are Simon Vestdijk, Arend Heyting, Roald Larsen, Masuji Ibuse, Jan Brzechwa, and Yitzhak Kaduri. Among people deceased in 1971, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 140. Before him are Heinz Hopf, Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, Erich Abraham, Jo Cals, Jean-Pierre Monseré, and William F. Albright. After him are Guillermo León Valencia, Frank Rosenblatt, Richard Montague, Simon Vestdijk, Bengt Ekerot, and Jacques Ochs.

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In India

Among people born in India, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 548 out of 1,861. Before him are Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), Robert Swinhoe (1836), Asrani (1940), Lobsang Sangay (1968), Arundhati Roy (1961), and Sanjeev Kumar (1938). After him are Arvind Krishna (1962), Jasraj (1930), Jagjivan Ram (1908), Rekha (1954), Anupam Kher (1955), and Supriya Pathak (1961).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ranks 65. Before him are Sumitranandan Pant (1900), Cerverí de Girona (1259), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), and Arundhati Roy (1961). After him are Surdas (1478), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), Qurratulain Hyder (1927), Nagarjun (1911), Faizi (1547), and Balamani Amma (1909).

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