Narayan Sanyal was born on 26 April 1923 in Krishnagar. He was an Indian writer of modern Bengali literature as well as a civil engineer. After graduating in science from the University of Calcutta, he passed a Bachelor of Engineering from Bengal Engineering College in 1948.
Thereafter he joined the Public Works Department and later the National Buildings Organisation, Ministry of Works and Housing, Eastern Region, Govt of India. He was a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) and a Fellow of the Association of Engineers (India). He also wrote books in Civil Engineering such as Vaastu Vigyan.
He received several awards for literature including Rabindra Puraskar (for Aporupa Ajanta in 1969), Bankim Puraskar (for Rupmanjari in 2000), and Narasingha Dutta Award. Many of his books were filmed and he won the Best Film Story Writer Award (for Satyakaam) by Bengal Film Journalists.
