Samaresh Basu

Samaresh Basu  was a Bengali writer born on 11 December 1924 (1331 in the Bengali calendar) and spent his early childhood in Bikrampur, Dhaka in present-day Bangladesh.  He was awarded the 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali, by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, for his novel, Shamba.

He won the 1983 Filmfare Awards for Best Story for Namkeen. Samaresh Basu, the eminent Bengali writer was married to Gauri Basu in the year 1942. It was an intercaste marriage. Samaresh Basu died on 12 March 1988.