Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay was born on 2 November 1935, in Mymensingh, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Bangladesh). He is a Bengali author from India.He passed intermediate from the Victoria College, Koch Bihar before taking a Masters in Bengali from Calcutta University.He started his career as a school teacher and is now on the staff of Anandabazar Patrika at Kolkata. He is associated with the Bengali magazine Desh. He has written stories for both adults and children. He is known for creating the relatively new fictional sleuths Barodacharan, Fatik, and Shabor Dasgupta.
