Sunil
Gangopadhyay or Sunil
Ganguly (7 September
1934 – 23 October 2012) was
a Bengalipoet and novelist. Born in Faridpur, Bangladesh,
Gangopadhyay obtained his Master's degree in Bengali from the University of
Calcutta, In 1953 he with few of his friends started a Bengali poetry magazine Krittibas.
Later he wrote for many different publications. Ganguly created
the Bengali fictional character Kakababu and wrote a series of novels on this
character which became significant in Indian children's literature. He received Sahitya
Akademi award in 1985 for
his novel Those Days (Sei Samaya). Gangopadhyay used the pen names Nil
Lohit, Sanatan Pathak, and Nil
Upadhyay.
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