Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay

Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay (15 August 1931 – 21 December 2021) was an Indian Bengali poet, translator and novelist.

Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay was born in Puri, Bihar and Orissa Province (British India), on 15 August 1931.

[4][5][6] His first novel Sahabas was published in the Desh and at that time the novel created a lot of controversy among the readers about wife-swapping.

He worked as a counsellor in the Creative Writing Programme of the Indira Gandhi National Open University.

[7] In 2008 Mukhopadhyay received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his book Ghumer Borir Moto Chand.