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Mitra Phukan (Assamese: মিত্ৰা ফুকন) is an Indian author who writes in English. She is also a translator and columnist.[1]

Mitra Phukan
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Indian
Period	1986 to present
Genre	Fiction, translation, essays.
Notable works	The Collector's Wife

Biography

Her published literary works include four children's books, a biography, two novels, "The Collector's Wife" and "A Monsoon of Music" (Penguin-Zubaan) several volumes of translations of other novels and a collection of fifty of her columns, "Guwahati Gaze". Her most recent works are a collection of her own short stories "A Full Night's Thievery" (Speaking Tiger 2016) and a collection of short stories in translation, "Aghoni Bai and Other Stories" (2019).^{[citation needed]}

She writes extensively on Indian music as a reviewer and essayist. Her works have been translated into many languages, and several of them are taught in colleges and Universities. As a translator herself, she has translated into English the works of some of the best known Assamese writers of fiction, including "Blossoms in the Graveyard", a translation of Jyanpeeth Awardee Birendra Kumar Bhattacharjee's "Kobor Aru Phool" and "Guilt and Other Stories" a translation of Sahitya Akademi awardee Harekrishna Deka's stories.^{[citation needed]}

Her latest work is the volume "The Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told", twenty five stories in translation selected and edited by her. She writes a column "All Things Considered" in the Assam Tribune.^{[citation needed]}

She is the author of The Collector's Wife (2005),[2] a novel set against the Assam Agitation of the 1970s and 80s.[3] The Collector's Wife was the one of the first generation novels in English written by an Assamese writer to be published by an international house.

Phukan is also a trained classical vocalist[4] and writes regularly on music.

Works

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• Mamoni's Adventures (1986, Children's Book Trust)
• Chumki Posts a Letter (1989, Children's Book Trust)
• The Biratpur Adventure (1994, Children's Book Trust)
• R G Baruah The Architect of Modern Assam (2004, Sahitya Prakash)
• The Collector's Wife (2005, Zubaan/Penguin)
• Terrorist Camp Adventure (2003, Scholastic)
• A Monsoon of Music (2011, Zubaan/Penguin)
• Guwahati Gaze (2013, Bhabani Publishers)
• Blossoms in the Graveyard (2016, Niyogi Publishers)
• A Full Night's Thievery (2016, Speaking Tiger)
• Aghoni Bai And Other Stories (2019, EBH Publishers)
• Patmugi and Other Stories (2021, Assam Sahitya Sabha, with Gayatri Bhattacharjee)
• Guilt and Other Stories (2021, Speaking Tiger)
• The Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told (2021, Aleph. Selected and Edited by Mitra Phukan)

See also

• Literature from North East India
• Indian English Literature

References

External links

• http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/article2397962.ece?css=print
• Fiction : "The Reckoning"
• Fiction : "The Homecoming"
• Fiction : "Spring song"
• Italian translation of Mitra Phukan's Short Story "Spring Song"
• https://literaryjournal.in/index.php/clri/article/view/57/77
• https://www.audible.in/pd/A-Monsoon-of-Music-Audiobook/B07J5BPWFD
• https://literaryjournal.in/index.php/clri/article/view/57/77
• http://www.jellonline.com/index.php/jell/article/view/N9V2.309

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