1. Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of Indian nationality.
16 Facts About Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's best known works are the autobiographical novel Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Chander Pahar and Aranyak.
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The Bandyopadhyay family originated in the Panitar village near Basirhat, located in the North 24 Parganas district of modern-day West Bengal.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's great-grandfather, who was an Ayurvedic physician, eventually settled in Barrackpore village, near Gopalnagar, Banagram, North 24 Parganas.
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However, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was born in Muratipur village, near Kalyani in Nadia, at his maternal uncle's house.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's father, Mahananda Bandyopadhyay, was a Sanskrit scholar and story-teller by profession.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was the eldest of the five children of Mahananda and his wife Mrinalini.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was admitted to the master's degree and Law classes, but could not afford to enroll for the postgraduate course at the University of Calcutta, and joined as a teacher in a school in Jangipara, Jangipara D N High School, Hooghly.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay worked in a variety of jobs to support both himself and his family before becoming a writer.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay became involved with Khelatchandra, a prominent name in music and charity, while tutoring his family.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay started working as a teacher in the Gopalnagar Haripada Institution, which he continued alongside his literary work, until his death.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay wrote and published Pather Panchali while staying at Ghatshila, a town in Jharkhand.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's works are largely set in rural Bengal, with characters from that area.
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In 1921, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's first published short story, "Upekshita" appeared in Prabasi, at the time one of Bengal's leading literary magazines.
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Ray referred aspiring scriptwriters to the works of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, and praised him by saying, "His lines fit the characters so well, they are so revealing that even when the author provides no physical description, every character seems to present itself before us simply through the words it speaks".
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was posthumously awarded the Rabindra Puraskar in 1951, a literary award in West Bengal, for his novel Ichhamati.