fiction.wikisort.org - WriterNilmani Phookan (born 10 September 1933) is an Indian poet in 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.[1][2]
Indian Assamese-language writer
Nilmani Phookan |
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Born | (1933-09-10) 10 September 1933 (age 89)
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Nationality | Indian |
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Occupation | poet, academic |
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Known for | symbolism |
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He has won the 56th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award , for the year 2020.[3] He was also awarded the 1981 Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese for his poetry collection, Kavita (Kobita).[4] He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 1990,[5] and received the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest literary honor in India, given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in 2002.[6]
Early life and education
He was born in Dergaon in Golaghat district, Assam. He received his Master's degree in
History from Guwahati University in 1961. Although he had started writing poetry since the early 1950s.[7]
Career
He started his career as a lecturer at Arya Vidyapeeth College in Guwahati in 1964, where he worked until his retirement in 1992.[7] He has also translated Japanese and European poetry into Assamese.
He has won the 56th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award, for the year 2020.[8][9] He was also awarded the Assam Valley Literary Award in 1997,[10] 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".[11] In 2019, he was awarded a D.Lit. by Dibrugarh University.[12]
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 & Recognitions
- In December 2021, the prolific poet and writer Nilmani Phookan received the prestigious Jnanpith Award for his lifetime contribution in literature.[13][14]
- In 1997, Phookan was awarded the Assam Valley Literary Award.
- He was awarded the 1981 Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese for his poetry collection, Kavita (Kobita)[13]
- He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 1990.
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Recipients of Padma Shri in Literature & Education |
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1950s | |
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1960s | |
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1970s | |
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1980s | |
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1990s | |
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2000s | |
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2010s | |
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2020s | |
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Sahitya Akademi Fellowship |
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Honorary Fellows | |
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Premchand Fellowship | |
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Ananda Coomaraswamy Fellowship |
- Senake Bandaranayake, Chie Nakane, Azad N. Shamatov (1996)
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Jnanpith Award recipients |
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1965–1985 | |
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1986–2000 | |
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2001–present | |
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Gangadhar National Award For Poetry |
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1991-2009 | |
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2010-2029 | |
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- (awarded by Sambalpur University)
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Authority control |
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National libraries | |
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Other | |
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На других языках
- [en] Nilmani Phookan Jr
[ru] Нилмони Пхукан (младший)
Нилмони Пхукан младший (ассам. নীলমণি ফুকন কনিষ্ঠ; 10 сентября 1933, Голагхат, Ассам) — ассамский и индийский поэт, писатель
, переводчик, искусствовед, педагог, доктор наук, академик.
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