Kalyan Gangopadhyay is a renowned literary personality of the Bengali literary world. He is not only a poet; but also a famous writer. He was born in Kolkata in the year 1952. His parents are Late Kiranlal Gangopadhyay and Smt. Ava Gangopadhyay. He was came of a middle class family. He has grown up in the middle class socio–economic culture with struggle. So he is a very much reality based man and his literary creations are also based on the hard reality. His first literary exposure was in “Amrita” Magazine. He has created lots of credential poetries, stories, and novels etc. He has done many workss on child literature. He has translated many stories from Hindi and other various provincial languages in Bengali.

His different literary creations have been translated in other provincial languages. He is a famous script writer. He is very popular in acting on stages and in TV or Cinema. His voice is heard very often on Radio.
He draws sketches on cover-pages of Hindi, Bengali, poetry books and Novels and Stories.
He is actively attached with activities and movements in different levels of our society. He is always involved into creative search in society. His love and hatred are always bound by human. He likes to stay alone, but loves to get companies from like minded people.

Some of his published books are: -
Mantrey Mukh Jantranay Paa (1984)
Lalit Santrar Sampatti Luth (1993)