# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/prabodh-kumar-bandyopadhyay
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:43:36.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/prabodh-kumar-bandyopadhyay"
name: "Prabodh Kumar Bandyopadhyay"
slug: "prabodh-kumar-bandyopadhyay"
description: "Manik Bandyopadhyay [alias Banerjee] is an Indian author regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century Bengali literature. His birth name is Prabodhkumar Bandyopadhyay. 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."
tagline: "Indian writer and poet (1908-1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Manik_Bandopadhyay.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1908-05-19"
deathDate: "1956-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.703206666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump