Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was an Indian novelist and short story writer in the Bengali language, born in 1894 and died in 1950. He is best known for his largely autobiographical novels Pather Panchali (Song of the Road), Aparajito (Undefeated), Chander Pahar (Mountain of the Moon) and Aranyak (Of the Forest), which follow the hardships and small joys of rural Bengali family life. His most celebrated works were adapted into films by the director Satyajit Ray, forming the acclaimed Apu Trilogy beginning with Pather Panchali in 1955, which brought international recognition to Bengali literature and helped establish Bandyopadhyay's novels as classics of Indian fiction.
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AwardRabindra Puraskar (1951, posthumous) 1 Classification
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Which novel won Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay the Rabindra Puraskar?
The 1951 prize was for Ichhamati and was awarded after his death.
He was awarded the Rabindra Puraskar in 1951 for his novel Ichhamati. The award is a literary prize in West Bengal and was given after his death in 1950. It is separate from the fame of Pather Panchali, the novel that brought him prominence in Bengali literature after it appeared as a serial in 1928 and as a book in 1929.
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12 September 1894 - 1 November 1950
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He was posthumously awarded the Rabindra Puraskar in 1951
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