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Line 37: '''Sunil Gangopadhyay''' or '''Sunil Ganguly''' (7 September 1934 – 23 October 2012)<ref name="Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay dies of a heart attack at 78" /> was an [[India]]n poet and novelist in the [[Bengali language]] based in the city of [[Kolkata]].<ref name="Sunil Gangopadhyay LOC">{{cite web\|title=Sunil Gangopadhyay\|url=https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/sunilgangopadhyay.html\|publisher=LIbrary of Congress\|accessdate=23 October 2012}}</ref> He is a former [[Sheriff of Kolkata]]. Gangopadhyay obtained his master's degree in Bengali from the [[University of Calcutta]]. In 1953 he and a few of his friends started a Bengali poetry magazine, ''[[Krittibas (magazine)\|Krittibas]]''. Later he wrote for many different publications. Ganguly created the Bengali fictional character ''[[Kakababu]]'' whose real name is Raja Roy Chowdhury and ~~wrote~~his apassion ~~series~~is ofto solve mysteries. He wrote 36 novels onin ~~this~~Kakababu ~~character~~series which became significant in Indian ~~children's~~children’s literature. He received ''[[Sahitya Akademi]]'' award in 1985 for his novel ''[[Those Days (novel)\|Those Days]]'' (''Sei Samaya'').<ref name="VanitaKidwai2001">{{cite book\|author1=Ruth Vanita\|author2=Saleem Kidwai\|title=Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVlhw1u8dSwC&pg=PA336\|accessdate=23 October 2012\|date=22 September 2001\|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan\|isbn=978-0-312-29324-6\|pages=336–}}</ref> Gangopadhyay used the [[nom de plume]] ''Nil Lohit'', ''Sanatan Pathak'', and ''Nil Upadhyay''.<ref name="Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay dies of a heart attack at 78" /> He was one of the most popular, creative and celebrated Bengali Writers of the present era. <ref>https://www.thehindu.com/news/the-man-who-carried-the-modern-consciousness-of-bengal/article4026398.ece</ref><ref>https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/762877.Sunil_Gangopadhyay</ref> ==Early life==

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