Rebati Mohan Dutta Choudhury (1924 – 29 February 2008) was a noted

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ese

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winner and an

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from Gauripur in

, India. Popularly he is known as ''Sheelabhadra'', his

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Early life and education

Born in 1924 at Gauripur in

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, Dutta Choudhury pursued his graduation from

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(now in

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). He obtained his post-graduation in

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from

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in 1946, with a first class and silver medal.

Career

After his post-graduated studies, he joined

Cotton College Cotton College was a Roman Catholic boarding school in Cotton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. It was also known as ''Saint Wilfrid's College''. The school buildings were centred on Cotton Hall, a country house used by religious communities fr ...

Guwahati Guwahati () the largest city of the Indian state of Assam, and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the seat of the Government of Assam. Th ...

as a

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. Subsequently, he became a contractor, a

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with the

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and assistant

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in a

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estate for some time and finally he restarted his teaching career in the

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in 1957 as a

. And he retired in 1982 as a

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. He died on 29 February 2008 at a hospital in

Literary works

Dutta Choudhury's major literary works are ''Madhupur aru Tarangini'', ''Agomonir Ghat'', ''Anahatguri'', ''Abichinna'', ''Prachir'', ''Godhuli and Anusandhan'' (all

novels A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of '' ...

) and ''Baastab'', ''Beer Sainik'', ''Samudrateer'', ''Tarua Kadam'', ''Pratiksha'', ''Uttaran'', ''Mezaz'', ''Sheelabhadrar Kuria Galpa'', ''Nirbachita Galpa'', ''Madhupurar Madhukar'', ''Anya ek Madhupur'', ''Uttar Nai'', ''Dayitya aru Anyanya Galpa'', ''Biswas aru Anyanya Galpa'', ''Lagaria'' and several other collections of

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. Many of his literary works have been translated into

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and Oriya by the

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, the

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and the

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. ''Smriticharan'' is his

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Novels

Short story collections

Autobiography

Awards and honours

Dutta Choudhury was honoured with the 1994

in Assamese for his

collection, ''Madhupur Bahudur'',''enotes.com'' List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners
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in 2001, the Bharatiya Bhasa Parishad award in 1990 and the Assam Publication Board

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in the same year.

References

External links

Rebati Mohan Dutta Choudhury Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Choudhury, Rebati Mohan Dutta People from Dhubri district 1924 births 2008 deaths Novelists from Assam Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese Scholars from Assam Indian newspaper editors University of Calcutta alumni Indian male novelists Indian male short story writers Recipients of the Assam Valley Literary Award 20th-century Indian novelists 20th-century Indian short story writers Journalists from Assam 20th-century Indian male writers Carmichael College alumni