Works Īuthor of well over 200 books, Sunil was a prolific writer who has excelled in different genres but declares poetry to be his 'first love'. Sunil, along with Tarun Sanyal, Jyotirmoy Datta and Satrajit Dutta had volunteered to be defence witnesses in the famous trial of Hungry generation movement poet Malay Roy Choudhury. After serving five years as the Vice President, he was elected the President of the Sahitya Akademi on 20 February 2008 Gangopadhyay in return mentioned Ginsberg in some of his prose work. Ginsberg mentioned Gangopadhyay most notedly in his poem September on Jessore Road. He became a friend of the beat poet Allen Ginsberg while he was travelling in India. Later, he started writing for various publications of the Ananda Bazar group, a major publishing house in Kolkata and has been continuing it for many years. Gangopadhyay was the founder editor of Krittibas, a seminal poetry magazine started publishing from 1953, that became a platform for a new generation of poets experimenting with many new forms in poetic themes, rhythms, and words. Their only son, Souvik, who stays in Boston, was born on 20 November 1967. 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.

East-West by Sunil Gangopadhyay