Saratchandra Chatterjee

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1876-09-16

Deathday 1938-01-16 (61 years old)

Place of Birth Debanandapur, Hooghly, Bengal Presidency, British India

Also Known As Sarat Chandra, Sarat Chandra Chatterji, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya, Saratchandra Chatterjee, Saratchandra Chatterji, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Saratchandra Chattopadhyaya, Sharat Chandra

Saratchandra Chatterjee

Biography

Saratchandra Chatterjee, also known as Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century. Most of his works deal with the lifestyle, tragedy, and struggle of the village people and the contemporary socio-cultural practices that prevailed in Bengal. He remains the most popular, translated, and adapted Indian author of all time. His works have been adapted in around fifty films in different South Asian languages. Particularly, his novel 'Devdas' (1917) has been adapted in sixteen different cinematic versions in languages including Bengali, Hindi, and Telugu. His novel 'Parineeta' (1914) has also been adapted thrice as Hindi language films. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.