Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay Author

Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (1898-1971) was one of India's foremost authors and wrote in Bengali. He wrote more than 50 novels and 200 short stories, more than 40 of which have been made into films. He received the Rabindra Puraskar Award, the Jnanpith Award, and the Sahitya Akademi Award, India's highest literary prizes, as well as the Padma Bhushan honor for distinguished service to the nation. Ben Conisbee Baer is associate professor of comparative literature at Princeton University.