Sunil Gangopadhyay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sunil Gangopadhyay

Indian Bengali language writer

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1934

Place of Birth: Faridpur District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh

Date of Death: 23-Oct-2012

Profession: writer, poet, children's writer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (7 September 1934 – 23 October 2012) was an Indian poet and novelist in the Bengali language based in the city of Kolkata.
Born in Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) Gangopadhyay obtained his master's degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta.
In 1953 he and a 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.