Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay | |
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 Mukhopadhyay in February 2014 | |
| Born | 2 November 1935 |
| Alma mater | Calcutta University |
| Occupations | Author, Teacher |
| Notable work | Baithaki, Manabjamin, Durbin, Parthib |
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Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 2 November 1935) [4] is a Bengali author from India. He has written stories for both adults and children. [5] He is known for creating the relatively new fictional sleuths Barodacharan and Shabor Dasgupta. [6]
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay was born in Mymensingh [2] (now in Bangladesh) on 2 November 1935. The Mukhopadhyays were originally from Bainkhara, Bikrampur (now Munshiganj). During partition his family migrated to Kolkata. [7] He spent his childhood in Bihar and many places in Bengal and Assam accompanying his father, who worked in the railways. He passed intermediate from the Victoria College (now ABN Seal College), Koch Behar before taking a Masters in Bengali from Calcutta University.
Mukhopadhyay started his career as a school teacher and is now on the staff of Anandabazar Patrika at Kolkata. He is associated with the Bengali magazine Desh . [8]
Mukhopadhyay's novels were later adopted in movies.
"Jal Taranga" was his first story published in the magazine "Desh" in 1959. After 7/8 years of writing story Ghunpoka was his first novel published in the annual Puja edition of the magazine Desh. His first children's novel was called Manojder Adbhut Bari.
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