About Manik Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandyopadhyay is an Indian author regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century Bengali literature. During a lifespan of 48 years and 28 years of literary career, battling with epilepsy from the age of around 28 and financial strains all along, he produced some masterpieces of novels and short stories, besides some poems, essays etc. One of the early neo-realist film shot in Pakistan, The Day Shall Dawn is based on his story. Manik differed and took the challenge with a bet and replied that his first story would be good enough for the purpose. Manik wrote his first novel Dibaratrir Kavya (Poetry of the Day and Night) at the age of 21. Manik had 16 books of short stories published during his lifetime.
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