Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Known Credits
57
Gender
Male
Birthday
1876-09-16
Day of Death
1938-01-16 (62 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.