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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was an Indian Bengali author, and one of the leading writers of modern Bengali literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel, Pather Panchali . He was posthumously awarded the Rabindra Puraskar in 1951, the most prestigious literary award in West Bengal, for his novel Ichhamati. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. September 1894 – 1. November 1950
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“The death in November of the well-beloved novelist, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay, in his fifties, leaves a void in the life of Bengal. He was unsurpassed in his portrayal of the countryside….”

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A challenging decade: Bengali literature in the forties, Lila Ray, 1998

“I thought that while Gurudeva Rabindranath was the greatest poet of modem times, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyaya could rub shoulders with any great novelist the world had known.”

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Sita Ram Goel, How I became a Hindu, Chapter 8

“The soil was adequately prepared for some of the great bildungsromans of modern India: Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's four-volume Sreekanta, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay's Father Panchati and Aparajito…”

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The First Promise, Ashapurna Debi, 2004

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