Tapan Bandopadhyay (born 7 June 1947) is an eminent

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novelist. He won the

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in 2022 for his novel ''Birbal''.

Early life

Tapan Bandyopadhyay was born in 1947 in

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. His family migrated from East Pakistan (now

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) in 1947 and settled in

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near

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. Bandyopadhyay passed School final examination from Baduria London Missionary Society High School. He joined in

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and passed Mathematics Hon's with first class. Bandyopadhyay joined in WBCS service in 1972 and retired as Secretary of Shishu Kishore Akademy under the

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Literary career

Initially Bandyopadhyay started his literary career as poet, latter he was known as a novelist and short story writer. Almost three hundred short stories of Bandopadhyay were published in various magazine and books. In 2010 he delegated

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17th International Book fair, as an Indian author. He created a lady Bengali detective character ''Goenda Gargi''. In 2019, Bandopadhyay received Sahitya Akademi translation award for translating Sitakanta Mahapatra’s

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poem collection ''Bharatbarsha''.

Notable awards

* Amritalok Award (2001) *

Bankim Puraskar Bankim Puraskar ( bn, বঙ্কিম পুরস্কার, 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 ...

(2002) * Panchajanya Award (2003) * BFJA Award (2004) * Roygunakar Bharatchandra Award (2005) * Rupashi Bangla Award (2009) * Tarashankar Smriti Award (2011) *

(2022)

References

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