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Summary He was the author of about 200 books.
Tributes poured in on Tuesday for prolific Indian writer and intellectual Sunil Gangopadhyay who died, aged 78, in Kolkata after suffering a heart attack.The author of more than 200 books, which included novels, poetry and childrens fiction, Gangopadhyay won several literary prizes, including Indias prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985.Celebrated novelist Amitav Ghosh, a fellow Bengali, offered a passionate farewell to Gangopadhyay, whom he described as a great writer and a warm, kind and generous man.Ghosh said Gangopadhyay had been a mainstay of life in Kolkata where he had nurtured a cosmopolitan literary culture, where no one needed to feel excluded.Indias President Pranab Mukherjee hailed him one of the finest intellectuals of his generation who had enriched Bengali literature through his unique style.
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