![]() He married Swati Banerjee on 26 February 1967. Thereafter, he obtained his master's degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta in 1954. He studied at the Surendranath College, Dum Dum Motijheel College, City College, Kolkata – all affiliated with the University of Calcutta. Later, his ancestral town fell within East Pakistan after the Partition of India in 1947. He came to live in Kolkata from his ancestral town at an early age. ![]() He was born in Faridpur into a Bengali Hindu family in what is now Bangladesh. He is regarded as one of the most popular, creative and celebrated Bengali Writers of the present era. Gangopadhyay used the pen name Nil Lohit, Sanatan Pathak, and Nil Upadhyay. He received Sahitya Akademi award in 1985 for his novel Those Days ( Sei Samay). He wrote 36 novels in Kakababu series which became significant in Indian children's literature. Ganguly created the Bengali fictional character Kakababu whose real name is Raja Roy Chowdhury and his passion is to solve mysteries. Later he wrote for many different publications. In 1953 he and a few of his friends started a Bengali poetry magazine, Krittibas. ![]() Gangopadhyay obtained his master's degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta. Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (7 September 1934 – 23 October 2012) was an Indian poet, historian and novelist in the Bengali language based in the city of Kolkata. ![]()
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