Nirmal Prabha Bordoloi (1932/1933 – 1 June 2004) was an Indian poet, lyricist and folklorist associated with
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 ...
. She was president of the
Asam Sahitya Sabha
The Asam Sahitya Sabha (; Literary Society of Assam) is a non Government, non profit, literary organisation of Assam. It was founded in December 1917 in Assam, India to promote the culture of Assam and Assamese literature. A branch of the organi ...
in 1991 held at
Dudhnoi in
Goalpara district
Goalpara district is an administrative district of the Indian state of Assam.
History
It was a princely state ruled by the Koch kings and the then ruler of the undivided kingdom. Today the erstwhile Goalpara district is divided into Kokrajha ...
.
She received several awards including
Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...
in 1983 for her poetry book ''Sudirgha Din Aru Ritu'', the President's Award in 1957 for children's literature and the Asam Sahitya Sabha award twice in 1977 and 1989 for her non-fiction books 'Dinar Pisat Din' and 'Debi', respectively. She was conferred the 'Saraswati Sanman' title in 1987.
Life and career
Bordoloi was
married as a child at the age of 11. She wrote over 54 Assamese and English books and numerous songs. Notable among these are ''Kabita: Bon Faringar Rong'', ''Samipesu'', ''Antarang'', ''Asamar Luko Sangonskriti'', ''Siba'', ''Asamar Luko Kabita''.
Her first collection of poems was 'Bon Faringar Rang'.
Some other collection of poems :
''Dinor Pasot Din''
''Samipehu''
''Antaranga''
''Sudirgha Din Aru Ritu''
Song collections :
''Xunboroniya Aai''
''Xuriya Geet''
Other literary works:
''Devi''
''Shiva''
''Surjya''
She died on 1 June 2004 at the age of 71.
See also
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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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List of people from Assam
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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 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. ...
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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 ...
References
External links
An interview with the authorat bipuljyoti.in.
1930s births
2004 deaths
Assamese-language poets
Asom Sahitya Sabha Presidents
Poets from Assam
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese
Indian women poets
20th-century Indian poets
20th-century Indian women writers
Women writers from Assam
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