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Narayan Gangopadhyay was born as Taraknath Gangopadhyay in Baliadingi in Dinjapur district of Bengal in 1918. His paternal side had their roots in the village of Basudebpara, Nalchira in Gournadi thana of [[Barisal]] district.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Anjali Basu|author2=Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta|authorlink2=Subodh Chandra Sengupta|title=সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান: প্রায় চার সহস্রাধিক জীবনী-সংবলিত আকর গ্রণ্থ|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TwwHBke-2HQC|page=352|edition=First|year=2010|publisher=Sahitya Samsad|isbn=978-81-7955-135-6|trans-title=Samsad Bengali Biographical Dictionary: A Repository Containing More Than Four Thousand Biographies|lang=bn}}</ref> His father, Pramathnath Gangopadhyay, was a police officer. Because his father would be transferred often, he studied in Dinajpur, Faridpur, Barisal and Kolkata. Narayan Gangopadhyay matriculated from [[Dinajpur Zila School]] in 1933. He then took admission at Rajendra College in Faridpur but had to leave the town on 1 May 1935 on political grounds. He was interned as a 'revolutionary suspect' and could not appear in the college examinations. Later he took admission in the second year at [[Brojomohun College|B M College]] in [[Barisal]] and passed Intermediate Arts (IA) as a non-collegiate candidate in 1936. He passed the Bachelor of Arts with distinction from the same college in 1938. Famous poet [[Jibanananda Das]] was his teacher there. In 1941, he completed the MA from the [[University of Calcutta]], receiving the Brahmamayee Gold Medal for his outstanding results. He earned DPhil from the same university in 1960, for his research in the field of short stories in [[Bengali literature]].

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