Sandipan Chattopadhyay was born on 25 October 1933, in Howrah, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was an Indian Bengali writer.He was one of the pioneers of the Hungryalism Movement, also known as the Hungry Generation, during 1961–65, though he, along with Binoy Majumdar, Shakti Chattopadhyay quit the movement over literary differences with fellow members Malay Roy Choudhury, Subimal Basak, Tridib Mitra, and Samir Roychoudhury.He was awarded the Sahitya Academy award for his book Ami O Banabihari.In His Sahityo Academy Award-winning novel Ami O Banabihari (2000).Some of his best-known writings include Cholerar Dingulite Prem, and "Shaper Chokher Bhitor Diye".He published several works of fiction for this paper's Sarod (Annual) edition, which later became best-selling novels.
