Please answer the following question: Facts: - alt: image of basudeb dasgupta , a bengali poet - caption: basudeb dasgupta in ashoknagar - death date: 31 august 2005 - birth date: 31 december 1938 - name: basudeb dasgupta - image size: 200px - image: basudeb dasgupta hungryalist.jpg - movement: hungry generation - occupation: novelist , short story writer and school-teacher Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of basudeb dasgupta .
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basudeb dasgupta -lrb- 31 december 1938 -- 31 august 2005 -rrb- , a bengali novelist and short-story writer -lrb- associated with the hungry generation movement -rrb- , is considered as one of the most significant avant-gardes and controversial figures in the history of bengali literature .