Language Bengali, English Ethnicity Bengali | Role Author | |
Occupation Poet, novelist, playwright, essayist Name Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay Movies Teenkahon, Shriman Prithviraj Parents Giribala Devi, Bipin Bihari Mukherjee Siblings Abani Bhusan Mukherjee, Hari Bhusan Mukherjee Similar People Bauddhayan Mukherji, Syed Mustafa Siraj, Tarun Majumdar | ||
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, anchored by Chinmoy Guha and directed by Debojit Kumar Ghosh
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (October 24, 1894 – July 29, 1987) was a renowned Bengali author. He was born in Darbhanga, Bihar, India.
Contents
- Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay anchored by Chinmoy Guha and directed by Debojit Kumar Ghosh
- Life
- Works
- Novel
- The Ranu short stories
- Other short stories
- Travelogue
- Natak
- The Book for Children
- Other novel and short stories adopted for film
- Translated in other languages
- References
Life
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay was born on 24 October 1894 in Pandoul, a village of Mithila of Bihar(India). The name of his father is Bipin Bihari Mukherjee and mother's name is Giribala Devi.
Bibhutibhushan's early days were spent in Darbhanga, Bihar, India. His college life was spent in Patna and Calcutta Was a schoolteacher and Manager of Daily English News paper, named "Indian Nation" published from Patna.
He awarded by Ananda Puraskar in 1958, Rabindra Puraskar in 1972 and Sharatchandra Puraskar in 1978. Jagattarini Puraskar from Calcutta University, D.Litt from the University of Burdwan and Desikottama from the Visva-Bharati University of Shantiniketan.
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay on 29 July 1987, died in his Darbhanga House. He was a bachelor and died at the age of ninety-three.
He has eight brothers and two sisters. He himself was "Mejo" i.e. second in number.
The names of his brothers were, Shashi Bhusan Mukherjee (The elder than him) Hari Bhusan Mukherjee (Third) Indu Bhusan Mukherjee (Fourth) Arbinda Bhusan Mukherjee (Fifth) Mani Bhusan Mukherjee (Sixth) Abani Bhusan Mukherjee (Seventh) Parulbala Devi (1st Sister) Dr. Binoy Bhusan Mukherjee (Eighth) Lilabati Devi (2nd Sister)
Works
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay’s first book, ‘Ranur Prothom Vagh’ was published in 1934. Child psychology and humorous element is found in his writing. Childish matters are very common in his writing.
The daily lives of middle class Bengali people are found in his writing.
His literary works were included in the curriculum of school level, secondary, higher secondary and graduation level Bengali Literature in Bihar and Bengal in India and Bangladesh. The name of the book prescribed for Intermediate class in Bihar was "Kushi Pranganer Chithi".