Gopal Lahiri was born and grew up in Kolkata. He currently lives in Kolkata, India. He is a bilingual poet, writer, editor, critic and translator and widely published in Bengali and English language. He has had seven collections of poems in Bengali and eight collections of poems in English which includes four POD books published from Lulu Publications, USA. His poems were published in various anthologies and journals which includes Indian Literature, CLRI, National Treasures, Home Bound etc.
He is an experienced book reviewer both in English and Bengali and his review has been published amongst others in the prestigious Desh weekly and The Telegraph Kolkata in the eighties and nineties. His area of interests for book review are poetry, prose poetry, novel, short story collection, non fiction and books on scientific topics as well. His reviews are featured in Boloji.com, Atunispoetry.com, Muse India, Review and Style Hut, Setu online journal etc. One of his review on poetry was published in an anthology ‘Vanished Reality’ by Tapeshwar Prasad. He is currently in the panel of reviewers of Indian Literature of Sahitya Akademi, (Print journal) , Muse India and Setu online journals.
Furthermore, his translation works in Bengali Not Just Milk and Honey, (published by NBT, India), a collection of short stories of Israel is widely acclaimed. He has jointly edited the anthology of poems: Scaling Heights and is the recipient of the Poet of the year award in Destiny Poets, UK, 2016. He can be reached