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{{Short description|Indian writer and poet}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Manik Bandopadhyay
| birth_name = Prabodh Kumar Bandhopaddhay
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1908|05|19}}
| image = Manik Bandopadhyay.jpg
| birth_place = [[Dumka]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1956|12|03|1908|05|19}}
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India
| nationality = Indian
| occupation = Writer
| spouse = Kamala Devi
}}
'''Manik Bandopadhyay''' ({{audio|manik.ogg|''Manik Bandopadhyay''}}; 19 May 1908<ref name="Kapoor2002">{{cite book|author=Subodh Kapoor|title=The Indian Encyclopaedia: Mahi-Mewat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mc6C5dVHbGAC&pg=PA4605|date=2002|publisher=Cosmo Publications|isbn=978-81-7755-272-0|page=4605}}</ref> – 3 December 1956) was an Indian writer and novelist, regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century [[Bengali language|Bengali]] literature.<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Kalpana|editor-last=Bardhan|title=Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels: A Selection of Bengali Short Stories|url=https://www.questia.com/read/125229824/of-women-outcastes-peasants-and-rebels-a-selection|location=Berkeley, CA|publisher=University of California Press|year=1990|page=19|url-access=|via=|isbn= }}{{dl|date=July 2021}}{{ISBN?}} </ref> During a lifespan of 48 years, battling with illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and nearly 250 short stories. His notable works include ''Padma Nadir Majhi''<ref name="LalKumar2007">{{cite book|author1=Malashri Lal|author-link=Malashri Lal|author2=Sukrita Paul Kumar|author2-link=Sukrita Paul Kumar|title=Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzMuRMNFDgYC&pg=PA254|date=2007|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-0637-4|page=254}}</ref> (The Boatman on The River Padma, 1936) and ''Putul Nacher Itikatha'' (The Puppet's Tale, 1936), ''Shahartali'' (Suburbia, 1941) and ''Chatushkone'' (The Quadrilateral, 1948).<ref>{{cite book|title="Manik Bandopadhyay: A Centenary Tribute" in the Indian Literature|author=Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee|year= 2008}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Bandopadhyay was born on 19 May 1908 in [[Dumka]], a small town in [[Santal Parganas]] district in the state of [[Bihar]] in [[British India]] in a Bengali [[Kulin Brahmin]] family. His real name was Prabodh Kumar Bandhopaddhay. Owing to his dark complexion, he was known to his family members as ''Kala Manik'' (black diamond), or simply Manik.<ref name=hunger/> His ancestral home was in Malapadiya village of [[Bikrampur]], in Dhaka district (present-day [[Bangladesh]]) His father Sri Harihar Bandopadhyay was a sub-register (magistrate) officer who had been working in different parts of the then Bengal like Calcutta, Bihar, Tangail, Brammanbaria etc. due to government rules.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bandyopadhyay, Manik - Banglapedia |url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bandyopadhyay,_Manik |website=en.banglapedia.org |publisher=Banglapedia}}</ref> He was the fifth of the fourteen children of his parents, Harihar Bandopadhyay and Niroda Devi.<ref name=hunger/> Harihar was a sub-registrar who was posted in different parts of [[Bengal]].<ref name=hunger/> This gave Manik to experience life and living of people in different parts of Bengal in his early life.<ref name=Kapoor2002 />

==Literary life==
Once while he was with his friends in their college canteen, one of them asked him if he could publish a story in the magazine ''Bichitra''. The would-be novelist replied that his first story would be good enough for the purpose. At that time, ''Bichitra'' was a leading periodical which carried stories only by eminent authors. Manik walked into the office of the periodical and dropped the story ''Atashi Mami (Aunt Atashi)'' in their letter box.<ref name=hunger/> At the end of the story he signed off as ''Manik Bandhopadhay''. After four months, publication of the story (in 1928) created sensation in the literary circles of Bengal and, from then on, the [[pen name]] stuck.

==Social and political views==
Manik carefully read [[Marx]] and [[Engels]] and became a [[Marxist]]. He became an active politician of Marxism by joining the [[Communist Party of India]] in 1944.<ref name=hunger>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/in-focus/hunger-artist-1579245|title=A Hunger Artist|date=2018-05-21|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-05-21|language=en|author=Shamsad Mortuza}}</ref>

==Works==
{{Main|List of works by Manik Bandyopadhyay}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
* Jugantor Chakrabarty (editor), ''Oprokashito Manik Bandopadhyay'', 1976.
* Saroj Dutta, ''Ouponnasik Manik Bandopadhyay'', 1993
* Nitai Basu, ''Manik Bandopadhyay'er Somaj Jijnasa'', 1978.

==External links==
{{Commons category|Manik Bandopadhyay}}
* {{Internet Archive author}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110628234326/http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/literature/manik-bandopadhyay.html Article on Manik Badopadhyay]

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