Born in 1982 and a statistician by profession, Sakyajit Bhattacharya started writing in 2002, mainly in the little magazines. His first book was published in 2016. To date, he has written around forty short stories and nine novels. His novel Ekanore, translated into English by Rituparna Mukherjee as The One-Legged, has been shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2024 and won the Kala Literature Awards 2025.