Question

Biography on Sunil Gangopadhyay in 150 words.​

Answer 1

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• Sunil Gangopadhyay, a prolific writer, excelled in different genres but famously declared poetry as his “first love”.

• He was a Post Graduate in Bengali, from the University of Calcutta.

• He along with a few of his friends in 1953 started a seminal poetry magazine in Bengali named “Krittibas” which became a platform for the new generation of poets.

• Later, the craft master started writing for various different publications in Kolkata.

• He has authored more than 200 books.

• His novels Atmprakash, Sei Somoy, Prothom Alo etc. became extremely famous and were even translated into many Indian and Foreign languages.

• Sunil was also awarded Indian Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985 for his historical fiction novel “Sei Somoy”.

• He also won Bankim Puraskar in 1982 and twice won the Ananda Puraskar in 1972 and 1989.

• More than twelve of his novels have been made into films. The likes of Satyajit Ray, Shyamorasad , Khyentse Norbu among many others have adapted his novels into movies.

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