Indian Assamese-language writer (1933–2023)
Nilmani Phookan
Born (1933-09-10 ) 10 September 1933Died 19 January 2023(2023-01-19) (aged 89) Occupations Poet, academic Known for Symbolism
Nilmani Phookan (10 September 1933 – 19 January 2023)[ 1] Assamese language and an academic. His work, replete withsymbolism , is inspired byFrench symbolism and is representative of the genre inAssamese poetry . His notable works includeSurya Henu Nami Ahe Ei Nodiyedi ,Gulapi Jamur Lagna , andKobita .[ 2] [ 3]
Phookan has won the 56thJnanpith Award , India's highest literary award, for the year 2020.[ 4] Sahitya Akademi Award inAssamese for his poetry collection,Kavita (Kobita).[ 5] Padma Shri byGovernment of India in 1990,[ 6] Sahitya Akademi Fellowship , the highest literary honor in India, given bySahitya Akademi , India's National Academy of Letters in 2002.[ 7]
Early life and education [ edit ] Phookan was born inDergaon inGolaghat district ,Assam . He received his Master's degree inHistory fromGauhati University in 1961. Although he had started writing poetry in the early 1950s.[ 8]
Phookan started his career as a lecturer atArya Vidyapeeth College inGuwahati in 1964, where he worked until his retirement in 1992.[ 8]
Phookan won the 56thJnanpith Award , India's highest literary award, for the year 2020.[ 9] [ 10] Assam Valley Literary Award in 1997,[ 11] Sahitya Akademi Fellowship , the highest literary honor in India, given bySahitya Akademi , India's National Academy of Letters, reserved for "the immortals of literature".[ 12] D.Lit. byDibrugarh University .[ 13]
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 [ edit ]
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
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