Siddhartha Sarma (Assamese: সিদ্ধাৰ্থ শৰ্মা) is an Indian English novelist and journalist from Assam.[1][2]
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Sarma is the author of the young adult novel The Grasshopper's Run (Scholastic, 2009),[3][4][5] which is set in Assam and Nagaland during the Second World War and follows the friendship between a Naga and Assamese boy.[6][7][8][9] It won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award in Children's Literature category.[10][11] In 2011, the Sahitya Academy awarded Sarma its Bal Sahitya Puraskar for The Grasshopper's Run.[12][13]
He has also written a travelogue based on his travels in the North East, an idea that originated from emails that he sent to his friends to describe his journey. The book is titled East of The Sun, and was released in early 2011.[14] In 2018, he published his fifth novel, Year of the Weeds.[15][16][17][18] In 2019, he published the non-fiction book Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India.[19][20][21][22] His next novel, titled Twilight in a Knotted World,[23] was released in September 2020.[24][25][26][27] In 2021, his work was published in the essay collection Where the Gods Dwell.[28]