Shachindranath Bandyopadhyay (born 6 September 1920 - died 26 May 1999) was a poet, essayist and playwright. He received the

Bankim Puraskar Bankim Puraskar (, Bankim Memorial Award) is the highest award given by the Government of West Bengal for contribution to Bengali fiction. The award was instituted in 1975 in memory of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, a famous Bengali novelist of the ...

award for his novel ''Bandare Bandare'' in 1987, the highest award given by the

West Bengal Government The Government of West Bengal, also known as the West Bengal Government, is the principal administrative authority of the Indian state of West Bengal, created by the National Constitution as the state's legislative, executive and judicial a ...

for contributions to Bengali literature. []

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