He has won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (Indian National Academy of Letter's Youth Prize) in 2017 in Bengali for his debut short story collection "Elvis O Amolasundari"[3][4] His shorty 'Half Timer Pawre' from the collection was selected by Hervill Secker, an imprint of Vintage, Penguin Random House, U.K for the Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize 2018.

[5][6][7][8][9] The story was published in Granta online[10] He has been awarded the Ila Chanda Smriti Puraskar by the oldest literary Institution of India, Bangiya Sahitya Parishad.

[15] His debut short story Ghola was published in prestigious Bengali Literary Magazine Desh at this time.

As a Corporate Communication professional he had access to the upper reaches of Mumbai and yet, the trains he traveled on, journeyed through some of the poorest urban areas of India.

[17] The writing of Shamik Ghosh is characterized by short sentences, vividly visual description and continuous changes of time and space.