Mani Sankar Mukherji

Sankar (Mani Sankar Mukherji) is one of Bengal’s most widely read
novelists. He also has several non-fiction bestsellers, including a
biography of Swami Vivekananda, to his credit. Two of his novels,
Seemabaddha (Company Limited) and Jana Aranya (The Middleman),
were turned into films by Satyajit Ray. In 2007, the English translation
of his novel Chowringhee was published by Penguin to huge critical
and commercial success. He lives and works in Kolkata.