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Sunil Gangopadhyay
Writer

Sunil Gangopadhyay

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Writing Those Days and creating the Bengali adventurer Kakababu.

Those Days · Purba Paschim

Born
7 September 1934
Birthplace
Faridpur District
Died
23 October 2012

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Sunil Gangopadhyay

Sunil Gangopadhyay was an Indian Bengali poet and novelist whose work ranged from intimate verse to historical fiction and children’s adventures.

Early life

Education

Moved from Madaripur to Kolkata and studied Bengali at the University of Calcutta.

Career

  1. 1953

    Krittibas

    Co-founded the experimental poetry magazine.

  2. 1985

    Sahitya Akademi Award

    Won for Sei Somoy, translated as Those Days.

  3. 2008

    Academy president

    Elected president of the Sahitya Akademi.

Selected work

Those Days

Recreates nineteenth-century Bengali society.

Purba Paschim

Follows Partition and its aftermath across generations.

Kakababu

Created the adventurer and his nephew Santu.

Beyond work

Family

Married Swati Banerjee in 1967.

Literary friendships

Became friends with Allen Ginsberg during the poet’s travels in India.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: Biswarup Ganguly. CC BY 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.