Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012), a renowned Bengali litterateur whose opus comprises nearly 300 literary works across many genres. A poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, scriptwriter and journalist, he shot into fame as the founder-editor of the poetry magazine Krittibas (1953), which was responsible for charting revolutionary and daring new course in Bengali poetry. Gangopadhyay’s iconic stories of the investigator duo Kakababu and his nephew Santu for young adults have triggered the imagination of generations of readers for over forty years. Bhoyonkor Sundor (The Dreadful Beauty), Sabuj Dwiper Raja (King of the Verdant Island), Paharchuray Atonko (Terror on the Mountaintop) and Jongoler Moddhe Ekta Hotel (A Hotel in the Jungle) are among the best loved of the thirty-nine adventures that he wrote.