Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay

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Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay
Born	(1956-03-08) 8 March 1956 (age 68) Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Occupation	Former Director
Nationality	Indian
Education	MA (University of Calcutta) Ph.D. (Jadavpur University)
Notable awards	Ananda Puraskar

Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay (born 8 March 1956) is a Bengali writer from India. He has written novels and short stories for both adults and children.^[1]

Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay was born in Calcutta.^[2] His father was Ramangamohan Mukhopadhyay and mother Kanaklata Mukhopadhyay. He graduated from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandir (a residential college) at Belur before taking a Masters in English from The University of Calcutta. He did his Ph.D from Jadavpur University. Mukhopadhyay started his career as Regional Secretary, East India, of Sahitya Akademi. Formerly he was Convener of the Bengali Advisory Board of the Sahitya Akademi. He was also President of the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad. He has retired as the Director of the Publishing Department, Visva-Bharati.^[3] He is associated with a number of Bengali Little Magazines.

His first collection of 14 short stories entitled "Madale Natun Bol" (The New Beats on the Drum) published from Calcutta in 1984. His first novel "Charane Prantare" (At the Grazing Ground, at the Horizon) was published from Calcutta in 1993.

• Somenchandra Award of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi (2000)
• Galpamela Puraskar (2004)
• Katha Award (New Delhi, 2005)
• Bankimchandra Smriti Puraskar of the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of West Bengal (2006)
• Saratchandra Smriti Puraskar (Bhagalpur, 2007)
• Sis Puraskar (2008)
• Gajendra Kumar Mitra Birth Centenary Award 2009

  

• Ananda Puraskar of the Ananda Bazar Patrika and Desh (2013)
• D.L.Ray Award (2014)
• Kusumanjali Award (New Delhi, 2014)
• Krititwa Samagra Puraskar of Bharatiya Bhasha Parisad (2016)
• Karmayogi Nanigopal Chakraborty Smriti Sahitya Puraskar (2023)

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