# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/narayan-debnath
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:05:58.843Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/narayan-debnath"
name: "Narayan Debnath"
slug: "narayan-debnath"
description: "Narayan Debnath was an Indian comics artist, writer and illustrator. He created the Bengali comic strips Handa Bhonda (1962), Bantul the Great (1965) and Nonte Phonte (1969). He holds the record of longest running comics by an individual artiste for Handa Bhonda comics series which completed its continuous 53 years of running. He was the first and only comics artist in India who has received a D. Litt. degree. Debnath was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, in the year 2022."
tagline: "Indian comics artist, writer and illustrator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Narayan_Debnath_in_work_room.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925"
deathDate: "2022-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.16
  momentum:             10.29411764705882
  historical:           4.220304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump