Bhubanmohan Baruah ( as,
ভূবনমোহন বৰুৱা; 1914 - 1998) was a novelist, short story writer from
Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
. He wrote many novels under the pen-name of Kanchan Baruah (কাঞ্চন বৰুৱা).
Life and works
Baruah served as a member of the Film Finance Board of Assam Government. He was also known as a painter and artist. Moreover, he directed a number of plays.
[ASSAMESE WRITER KANCHAN BARUA DEAD, ]The Assam Tribune
''The Assam Tribune'' is an Indian English daily newspaper published from Guwahati and Dibrugarh, Assam. With over 700,000 copies of current circulation and a readership of over 3 million, it is the highest circulated English daily in northeaste ...
, 11 May 1998, Retrieved 2013-05-23.
He was a bachelor and had two brothers and two sisters.
The
Government of Assam
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offered him literary pension.
He died in
Shillong
Shillong () is a hill station and the capital of Meghalaya, a Indian state, state in northeastern India, which means "The Abode of Clouds". It is the headquarters of the East Khasi Hills district. Shillong is the list of most populous cities in ...
on 10 May 1998.
Literary works
Baruah was author of more than twenty other novels and some short stories. Some of the novels are:
* ''
Asimat Jar Heral Seema'' (অসীমত যাৰ হেৰাল সীমা) (1945)
* ''Puwoti tora'' (পূৱতি তৰা)
* ''Mrita bihanga'' (মৃত বিহংগ)
* ''Joya mohol'' (জয়া মহল)
* ''Ashanto prohor''(অশান্ত প্ৰহৰ)
* ''Urmilar sokulu'' (উৰ্মিলাৰ চকুলো)
See also
*
Assamese literature
Assamese literature ( as, অসমীয়া সাহিত্য, translit=ɔxɔmiya xaɦitjɔ}) is the entire corpus of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, documents and other writings in the Assamese language. It also includes the liter ...
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History of Assamese literature
Assamese is part of the easternmost group of the Indo-Aryan languages. History of Assamese literature can largely be classified into three periods, including: Early Assamese period (6th to 15th century A.D.), Middle Assamese period (17th to 19th ...
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List of Asam Sahitya Sabha presidents
Asam Sahitya Sabha ( as, অসম সাহিত্য সভা), Ôxôm Xahityô Xôbha or "Assam Literary Society") was founded in 1917 in Assam, India to promote the culture of Assam and Assamese literature.
Except regular biennially sea ...
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List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Assamese
Sahitya Akademi Award is given each year, since 1955, by Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters), to writers and their works, for their outstanding contribution to the upliftment of Indian literature and Assamese literature in p ...
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List of Assamese-language poets
This is a List of notable Assamese poetsঅসমীয়া কবি.
* Madhav Kandali ( fl. 14th century)
* Hem Saraswati ( fl. 14th century)
* Haribar Bipra ( fl. 14th century)
* Sankardev (1449–1568)
* Madhavdev (1489–1596)
* Anant ...
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List of Assamese writers with their pen names
Assamese literature is the entire corpus of poetry, novels, short stories, documents and other writings in the Assamese language. It also includes popular ballads in the older forms of the language during its evolution to the contemporary form. T ...
References
External links
Kanchan barua ebook-অসীমত যাৰ হেৰাল সীমা -অসমীয়া ই-বুক- Assamese eBook
Novelists from Assam
1914 births
1972 deaths
20th-century Indian novelists
Assamese-language writers
20th-century Indian short story writers
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