Abhijit Sen received the Bankimchandra Memorial Award for Rahu Chandaler Haar (1985) in 1992 and the Saratchandra Memorial Award from the University of Calcutta in 2005 and 2022 for his contribution to Bengali literature. Some of his widely known works include the short stories Debangshi, Santrash and Poddhoti and the novels Chayar Pakhi, Bidyadhari O Bibagi Lakhindar and Mousumi Samudrer Upokul. Rahu Chandaler Haar has been translated as Magic Bones by Papri Sri Raman and published jointly by Abhinav Publications, Delhi, and Facet Books International, New York, in 1992.