Bhubanmohan Baruah Explained

Bhubanmohan Baruah
Pseudonym:	Kanchan Barua
Birth Date:	1914
Birth Place:	Assam, India
Death Place:	Shillong, India
Occupation:	Novelist, Short story writer
Language:	Assamese
Nationality:	Indian
Genre:	Literature
Portaldisp:	Literature

Bhubanmohan Baruah (1914 - 1998) was a novelist, short story writer from Assam. He wrote many novels under the pen-name of Kanchan Baruah.^[1]

Life and works

Baruah served as a member of the Film Finance Board of Assam Government. He was also known as a painter and artist. Moreover, he directed a number of plays.^[2]

He was a bachelor and had two brothers and two sisters.^[2]

The Government of Assam offered him literary pension.^[2]

He died in Shillong on 10 May 1998.^[2]

Literary works

Baruah was author of more than twenty other novels and some short stories. Some of the novels are:^[1]

• Asimat Jar Heral Seema (অসীমত যাৰ হেৰাল সীমা) (1945)^{[3] [4]}
• Puwoti tora (পূৱতি তৰা)
• Mrita bihanga (মৃত বিহংগ)
• Joya mohol (জয়া মহল)
• Ashanto prohor(অশান্ত প্ৰহৰ)
• Urmilar sokulu (উৰ্মিলাৰ চকুলো)

See also

• Assamese literature
• History of Assamese literature
• List of Asam Sahitya Sabha presidents
• List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Assamese
• List of Assamese-language poets
• List of Assamese writers with their pen names

External links

• Kanchan barua ebook-অসীমত যাৰ হেৰাল সীমা -অসমীয়া ই-বুক- Assamese eBook

Notes and References

1. Web site: enajori.com . Authors . enajori.com . 2013-05-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130703062421/http://enajori.com/literature/authors/ . 2013-07-03 .
2. ASSAMESE WRITER KANCHAN BARUA DEAD, The Assam Tribune, 11 May 1998, Retrieved 2013-05-23.
3. Web site: Context of Novels . . 2013-05-23.
4. Web site: Assamese Book Database (First List) . enajori.com . 2012-10-31 . 2013-05-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130703061125/http://enajori.com/enajori-com-assamese-book-database-first-list/ . 2013-07-03 .