Sunil Gangopadhyay

Sunil Gangopadhyay ( Bengali: সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়, Sunil Gangopadhyay, born September 7, 1934 at the district Faridpur, Bangladesh today, † 23 October 2012 in Calcutta, India) was a Bengali writer.

He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1954 and later a Master's degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta. For many years he was connected with the publishing house of the Anandabazar Patrika next Vice President of the Sahitya Akademi.

As an author, he has published numerous books in various literary genres, but his preference was the lyric. Gangopadhyay was editor of Poetry magazine Krittibas.

Gangopadhyay is also known for his prose. Some of his works have been made ​​into a movie; Aranyer Din Ratri and Pratidwandi of Satyajit Ray and Abar Aranya by Gautam Ghosh. His historical novel Be Somoy received the Indian Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985 and was for many years after its release still a bestseller, as well as the novels Pratham Alo and PorB Paschim.

More prices in 1982 were the Bankim Puraskar and the Ananda Puraskar twice.

Gangopadhyay wrote travelogues, children's books, short stories and essays under the pseudonyms Nil Lohit, Sanatan Pathak and Nile Upadhyay.