death_place death_date children birth_place othername birth_date birthname article_title name occupation
kolkata , india 6 november 1970 arijit ganguly -lrb- son -rrb- . baliadingi , dinajpur , bengal -lrb- now bangladesh -rrb- narayan ganguly 4 february 1918 taraknath gangopadhyay narayan gangopadhyay
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narayan gangopadhyay

narayan gangopadhyay -lrb- ; 1918 -- 1970 -rrb- , also known as narayan ganguly -rrb- was a renowned south asian writer ; novelist , poet , essayist , and short story writer who was born at baliadingi in dinajpur in undivided bengal , on 4 february 1918 , son of pramathanath gangopadhyay .
named taraknath gangopadhyay , he took up ` narayan ' as his penname .
his forefathers lived at nalchira of basudebpur in barisal district .
