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Indian Assamese-language writer (1933–2023)
Nilmani Phookan
Born (1933-09-10 ) 10 September 1933Died 19 January 2023(2023-01-19) (aged 89) Nationality Indian Occupation(s) Poet, academic Known for
Symbolism
Nilmani Phookan (10 September 1933 – 19 January 2023)
[1] was an Indian poet in the
Assamese language and an academic. His work, replete with
symbolism , is inspired by
French symbolism and is representative of the genre in
Assamese poetry . His notable works include Surya Henu Nami Ahe Ei Nodiyedi , Gulapi Jamur Lagna , and Kobita .
[2]
[3]
Phookan has won the 56th
Jnanpith Award , India's highest literary award, for the year 2020.
[4] He was also awarded the 1981
Sahitya Akademi Award in
Assamese for his poetry collection, Kavita (Kobita).
[5] He was awarded the
Padma Shri by
Government of India in 1990,
[6] and received the
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship , the highest literary honor in India, given by
Sahitya Akademi , India's National Academy of Letters in 2002.
[7]
Early life and education
Phookan was born in
Dergaon in
Golaghat district ,
Assam . He received his Master's degree in
History from
Gauhati University in 1961. Although he had started writing poetry in the early 1950s.
[8]
Career
Phookan started his career as a lecturer at
Arya Vidyapeeth College in
Guwahati in 1964, where he worked until his retirement in 1992.
[8] He has also translated Japanese and European poetry into Assamese.
Phookan won the 56th
Jnanpith Award , India's highest literary award, for the year 2020.
[9]
[10] He was also awarded the
Assam Valley Literary Award in 1997,
[11] and in 2002 he received the
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship , the highest literary honor in India, given by
Sahitya Akademi , India's National Academy of Letters, reserved for "the immortals of literature".
[12] In 2019, he was awarded a
D.Lit. by
Dibrugarh University .
[13]
Works
Surya Heno Nami Ahe Ei Nadiyedi ("The sun is said to come descending by this river"), 1963.
Manas-pratima . Guwahati Book Stall, 1971.
Phuli Thaka Suryamukhi Phultor Phale ("Towards the Blooming Sunflower"), 1971.
Kabita . Sahitya Akademi Publications, 2001.
ISBN
81-260-1058-4 .
Selected Poems Of Nilmani Phookan . tr. by Krishna Dulal Barua. Sahitya Akademi Publications, 2007.
ISBN
81-260-2433-X .
Awards and recognition
References
External links
1968–1980
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1968)
D. R. Bendre ,
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay ,
Sumitranandan Pant ,
C. Rajagopalachari (1969)
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer ,
Firaq Gorakhpuri ,
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar ,
Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1970)
Kaka Kalelkar ,
Gopinath Kaviraj ,
Gurbaksh Singh ,
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1971)
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar ,
Mangharam Udharam Malkani ,
Nilmoni Phukan ,
Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi ,
Sukumar Sen ,
V. R. Trivedi (1973)
T. P. Meenakshisundaram (1975)
Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande ,
Jainendra Kumar ,
Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu' ,
V. Raghavan ,
Mahadevi Varma (1979)
1981–2000
Umashankar Joshi ,
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar ,
K. Shivaram Karanth (1985)
Mulk Raj Anand ,
Vinayaka Krishna Gokak ,
Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi ,
Amritlal Nagar ,
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai ,
Annada Shankar Ray (1989)
Nagarjun ,
Balamani Amma ,
Ashapurna Devi ,
Qurratulain Hyder ,
Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte ,
Kanhu Charan Mohanty ,
P. T. Narasimhachar ,
R. K. Narayan ,
Harbhajan Singh (1994)
Jayakanthan ,
Vinda Karandikar ,
Vidya Niwas Mishra ,
Subhash Mukhopadhyay ,
Raja Rao ,
Sachidananda Routray ,
Krishna Sobti (1996)
Syed Abdul Malik ,
K. S. Narasimhaswamy ,
Gunturu Seshendra Sarma ,
Rajendra Shah ,
Ram Vilas Sharma ,
N. Khelchandra Singh (1999)
Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar ,
Rehman Rahi (2000)
2001–present
Ram Nath Shastri (2001)
Kaifi Azmi ,
Govind Chandra Pande ,
Nilamani Phookan ,
Bhisham Sahni (2002)
Kovilan ,
U. R. Ananthamurthy ,
Vijaydan Detha ,
Bhadriraju Krishnamurti ,
Amrita Pritam ,
Shankha Ghosh ,
Nirmal Verma (2004)
Manoj Das ,
Vishnu Prabhakar (2006)
Anita Desai ,
Kartar Singh Duggal ,
Ravindra Kelekar (2007)
Gopi Chand Narang ,
Ramakanta Rath (2009)
Chandranath Mishra Amar ,
Kunwar Narayan ,
Bholabhai Patel ,
Kedarnath Singh ,
Khushwant Singh (2010)
Raghuveer Chaudhari ,
Arjan Hasid ,
Sitakant Mahapatra ,
M. T. Vasudevan Nair ,
Asit Rai ,
Satya Vrat Shastri (2013)
Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa ,
C. Narayana Reddy (2014)
Nirendranath Chakravarty ,
Gurdial Singh (2016)
Honorary Fellows Premchand Fellowship Ananda Coomaraswamy Fellowship
1965–1985 1986–2000 2001–present