Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1936

Place of Birth: Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Date of Death: 14-Jan-1979

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay (1936–1979) was a Bengali writer, editor, correspondent and political activist.
He reshaped Bengali prose writing in late 1950 to 1970, with his deft portrayal of love, protest and anger in post-independence Bengali milieu.
Associated with left political activities as student, active member of the Bengal Provincial Student Federation (BPSF), the provincial branch of All India Students Federation (AISF) Dipendratnath was a narrator of the turbulent socio-political vortex of his time.
He wrote 51 short stories, 5 novels - including one unfinished - and significant number of reportage or newspaper articles, during his short-lived creative period.
Specially his reportages were popular in Bengali readers.
Increased political and organisational activity reduced his literary activity which decreased to a trickle in his twilight years. Bandyopadhyay was posthumously awarded a Bangladesh Freedom Honour, the highest state award given by the government of Bangladesh for foreigners or non-nationals.