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Chandra Prasad Saikia (1927–2006) was a 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 ...
, India. He was the 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 ...
held at Hajo and
Jorhat district Jorhat (pron: ˈʤɔ:(r)ˌhɑ:t) is an administrative district of the Indian state of Assam situated in the central part of the Brahmaputra Valley. The district is bounded by Majuli on north, Nagaland state on the south, Charaideo on the east and ...
, Assam in 1999 and 2000, respectively. Saikia was born on 8 July 1927 in Jalukgaon,
Jhanji Jhanji is a small semi-rural area situated in Sivasagar and Jorhat districts. The river Jhanji River divides these two districts. History The river Jhanji is famous from the time of Ahom kingdom in Assam. It physically divides Jorhat and S ...
in Sivasagar district, Assam. After having primary education in Sivasagar he had left for
Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...
for higher education.


Literacy Works

; Novels * ''Edin'' * ''Meghamallar'' * ''Uttarkal'' * ''Suryasnan'' * ''Mandakranta'' * ''Janmantar'' * ''Maharathi'' * ''Tore More Alokare Yatra'' ;Short story collections * ''Mayamriga'' * ''Nachpati Phool'' * ''Chakrabat'' * ''Angikar'' * ''Chandra Prasad Saikiar Nirbachita Galpa'' ; Miscellaneous * ''Dristikon'' * ''Nirbachita Sampadakiya'' * ''Americar Chithi'' Saikia was also editor of various journals and newspapers, including '' Goriyoshi'', ''
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 ...
'', ''Prakash'', ''Natun Dainik'', and ''Asom Batori''.


Awards and honours

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Assam Valley Literary Award The Assam Valley Literary Award ( as, অসম উপত্যকা সাহিত্য বঁটা) was conceived in the year 1990 by ''Williamson Magor Education Trust'' to honour creative writers who have enhanced Assamese literature. It ...
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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 ...
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Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished servi ...
(2007) * Publication Board Award (2000).


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 lite ...
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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 s ...
* List of Assamese writers with their pen names


References

Novelists from Assam Asom Sahitya Sabha Presidents 1927 births 2006 deaths People from Sivasagar district Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese Recipients of the Assam Valley Literary Award 20th-century Indian novelists 20th-century Indian short story writers {{india-writer-stub