Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Native name	বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়
Born	12 September 1894 Ghoshpara-Muratipur village, Bengal, British India (now Nadia district, West Bengal, India)
Died	1 November 1950 (aged 56) Ghatshila, Bihar (now Jharkhand), India
Occupation	Writer, novelist
Nationality	Indian
Ethnicity	Bengali
Notable awards	Rabindra Puraskar (posthumous) (1951)
Spouse	Gouri Devi Rama Chattopadhyay
Children	Taradas Bandyopadhyay

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay ( listen ) (12 September 1894 – 1 November 1950) 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 (The Song of the Road), which was later adapted (along with Aparajito, the sequel) into The Apu Trilogy of films directed by Satyajit Ray.

The 1951 Rabindra Puraskar, the most prestigious literary award in West Bengal, was posthumously awarded to Bibhutibhushan for his novel, Ichhamati.

The Bandyopadhyay family originated in the Panitar village near Basirhat, located in the North 24 Parganas district of modern-day West Bengal. Bibhutibhushan's great-grandfather, who was an Ayurvedic physician, eventually settled at Barakpur village, near Gopalnagar, Banagram(now-Bangaon), North 24 Parganas. However, Bibhutibhushan was born in Muratipur near Kalyani Ghoshpara, Nadia, at his maternal uncle's house. His father, Mahananda Bandyopadhyay, was a Sanskrit scholar and story-teller (Kathak) by profession. Mahananda and his wife Mrinalini had five children, of whom Bibhutibhushan was the eldest.

Bibhutibhushan's childhood home was at Barakpur village, near Gopalnagar Police Station in Bongaon, North 24 Parganas.