Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay (3 February 1873–5 April 1932) was a Bengali writer. He was born at Dhatrigram in present-day Purba Bardhaman district, West Bengal at his maternal uncle's house. His native place was Gurap in Hooghly district, West Bengal. Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay is known to be a very famous and proficient writer in Bengali Literature. After Rabindranath Tagore, he is the best-known short story writer. He wrote novels, short stories, and poems. His poems were published in the Bharati, a Bengali periodical, while he was still in school. He gained fame writing short stories, which are based on looking at life in a light-hearted, simple, way.[2] During his career, he wrote over one hundred stories and fourteen novels.
