Manoranjan Byapari writes in Bengali. Some of his important works include Chhera Chhera
Jibon, Ittibrite Chandal Jibon and the Chandal Jibon Trilogy. He taught himself to read and
write at the age of twenty-four when he was in prison. He has worked as a rickshaw-puller, a
sweeper and a porter. Until 2018, he was working as a cook at the Hellen Keller Institute
for the Deaf and Blind in West Bengal.