Sasthipada Chattopadhyay


Sasthipada Chattopadhyay is an Indian novelist and short story writer in Bengali. He is well known in Bengali literature for the stories of Pandab Goenda.

Career

Chattopadhyay was born in 1941 in Khurut, Shathitala, Howrah district. He published his first literary work Kamakhya Bhraman in Dainik Basumati in 1961 and started working in Anandabazar Patrika under guidance of Ramapada Chowdhury and Sagarmoy Ghosh. Chattopadhyay worked in Rabibasoryo, Anandabazar from 1961. In the meantime, he joined the Indian Railway service and became posted at Ghatshila. He wrote many novels, travelogue, short stories but became popular and gained recognition for the creation of Pandab Goenda, an adventure detective series for children. Pandab Goenda was later realised in television in animated form. He loves to explore countries and have experiences which are reflected in most of the stories. Chattopadhyay created two more detective series namely Detective Ambar Chatterjee and Goenda Tatar. He wrote hundred of detective and adventure stories. His creation of Tatar story was filmed as Goyenda Tatar in 2019.

Works

Chattopadhyay was awarded Bal Sahitya Puraskar in 2017 for his contribution to children's literature in Bengali by the Sahitya Akademi.