Sourav Bandopadhyay was Born in 6th Nov  1971 in South Kolkata.  His father was a school teacher who incorporate the habit of studying novels at his tender age from his father’s home collection of books. He did graduation from Calcutta University in Commerce stream. Writing habit has grown up from his school days. At the beginning,  he wrote only poems. Later he started writing short stories also. He associated with many little magazines since his college hood.  His writings has been published in many little magazines over the last three decades. In last ten years he concentrated mainly  in translation work. He has already translated many short stories into Bengali from many Indian languages. Nowadays he has concentrated in modernization of the ancient Bengali novels. Besides that he also translated various old  English Detective stories in to Bengali. At present he is working in a travel agency in Kolkata.