Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay (Bengali: আশুতোষ মুখোপাধ্যায়, anglicised spelling of surname: Mukherjee ) was one of the most prominent writers of modern Bengali literature.
He was born on September 7, 1920 in Bajrajogini, Dacca (now Dhaka) as the fifth of ten children of a Bengali Brahmin couple, Paresh Chandra Mukhopadhyay and Tarubala Devi. Mukhopadyay graduated in commerce from Hooghly Mohsin College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. His first story was Nurse Mitra, published in the newspaper Basumati, which was later made into major movies (Deep Jwele Jai in Bengali and Khamoshi in Hindi). Bollywood films like Safar (1970) and Bemisal were also made from his novels.
He died on May 4, 1989.