Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote Devdas when he was 17

Bengali author Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, known worldwide for his novels and short stories, wrote his most-famous novel 'Devdas' when he was 17-years-old. The novel has been adapted into more than 15 films in languages including Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil and Assamese. Chattopadhyay is reportedly the most translated, adapted and plagiarized Indian novelist of all times.