Apurba Sarma

Apurba Sarma (born January 1, 1943) is a National Award-winning film critic and a Sahitya Akademi winning author from Halem, Sonitpur district, Assam. He is one of the brothers of Arun Sarma who is also a Sahitya Academy Award winning author. He did his Masters in Economics at Gauhati University (1965). And later worked as a staff reporter at The Assam Tribune (1965–1967), as lecturer in economics at Nowgong Girls College (1967–1997), as principal, Nowgong Girls College (1997–2002), and as editor of Ajir Asom, an Assamese daily published by The Sentinel (Guwahati). He is presently the founder-president of Xahitya Mancha Asom,[1] a Guwahati-based society of writers and fans of Assamese literature.

Apurba Sarma
OccupationFilm Critic
NationalityIndian
Notable awardsNational Film Award for Best Book on Cinema, Sahitya Akademi Award for Creative Literature in Assamese (in 2000, for "Baghe Tapur Rati", a short story collection)...

Awards and accolades

Jury member
  • National Film Award - 2005
  • National Film Award – 2007[7]

Author

Books

  • Six anthologies of short fiction in Assamese
  • Axomiya Chalachitrar Sa-Pohar (Light and Shade on Assamese Cinema)
  • The Lone Ranger in a Forsaken Frontier (on the life of the pioneer filmmaker of Indian Cinema in the North East)

Features in journals

  • Filming 'Literature' (Deep Focus, Vol. VI 1996)
  • An Experience of Oppression in Assamese Cinema (Deep Focus, vol. VII No 3 &4, 1997–98)

See also

References
  1. "The Sentinel". sentinelassam.com. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  2. "Apurba Sarma gets Literary Award - The Hindu". thehindu.com. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  3. "Lit award for Apurba Sarma - Times of India". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  4. TI Trade. "The Assam Tribune Online". assamtribune.com. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  5. "अपूर्व-शर्मा-को-असम-वैली-अवॉर्ड |Award Apurba Sarma Guwahati Hindi शर्मा वैली अवॉर्ड Hindi Latest News". news.raftaar.in. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  6. "Apurba Sarma awarded Assam Valley Literary Award | Business Standard News". business-standard.com. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  7. http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2008/jun/54th_nfa.pdf
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