Manik Bandopadhyay
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| Born |
Prabodh Kumar Bandhopaddhay 19 May 1908 Dumka, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Died | 3 December 1956 (aged 48) Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | British India |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse(s) | Kamala Devi |
| Parent(s) | Harihar Bandyopadhyay (Father) Neeroda Devi (Mother) |
Manik Bandopadhyay (Bengali: মানিক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় 
Manik Bandopadhyay ; 19 May 1908 – 3 December 1956) was a Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bengali fiction. During a short lifespan of 48 years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and 177 short stories. His important works include Padma Nadir Majhi (The Boatman on The River Padma, 1936) and Putul Nacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale, 1936), Shahartali (Suburbia, 1941) and Chatushkone (The Quadrilateral, 1948).
Manik Bandopadhay was born on 19 May 1908 in a small town called Dumka in the district of Santal Parganas in the state of Bihar in India. His real name was Prabodh Kumar Bandhopaddhay. His pen name was derived from his pet name 'Manik'. He was the fifth of the fourteen children (eight sons and six daughters) of his parents, Harihar Bandopadhyay and Niroda Devi. His father Harihar was a government official who travelled across undivided Bengal in connection with his job. This gave Manik to experience life and living of people in different parts of Bengal in his early life.
Manik passed the entrance examination from the Midnapore Zilla School in 1926, securing first division with letter marks in compulsory and optional mathematics. In the same year he got admitted in Welleslyan Mission College at Bankura. Earlier he studied in Contai Model Institution in Contai.
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