Sankar (writer)

Sankar
Sankar at the United Nations, New York in August 2011.
Born
Mani Sankar Mukherjee

(1933-12-07)7 December 1933
Hindmotor, Hooghly district, Bengal Presidency, British India
(present-day Hooghly, West Bengal)
Died20 February 2026(2026-02-20) (aged 92)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupations
  • Writer
  • novelist
  • essayist
  • researcher
Known forBooks on Swami Vivekananda, Bengali novels
AwardsBankim Puraskar
Sahitya Akademi

Mani Sankar Mukherjee (7 December 1933 – 20 February 2026), commonly known as Sankar in both Bengali- and English-language literature, was an Indian writer in the Bengali language, who also served as the Sheriff of Kolkata. He grew up in Debdoot Sheet Nagar in Howrah of West Bengal.

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