Shakti Chattopadhyay

Shakti Chattopadhyay was born on 25 November 1933, in Jaynagar, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was an Indian poet and writer who wrote in Bengali.

He passed Matriculation Examination in 1951 and got admitted to the City College to study commerce as his maternal uncle, who was a businessman and also his guardian, promised him a job as an accountant.

In 1953, he passed Intermediate Commerce Examination but gave up studying commerce and got admitted to the Presidency College (now Presidency University, Kolkata) with Honours in Bengali literature but he did not appear in the examination.

He started writing novels to make a living from literature. Kuyotala was his first novel. His first collection of poems, Hey prem, Hey naishyabda (O love, O silence), was published in 1956. Abani Bari Achho is a poem by Shakti Chattopadhyay.

He was awarded Ananda Puraskar and Sahitya Akademy Awards for his works.