Nilmani Phookan Jr Explained

Nilmani Phookan
Native Name:নীলমণি ফুকন
Birth Date:10 September 1933
Birth Place:Dergaon, Assam Province, British India
Death Place:Guwahati, Assam, India
Nationality:Indian
Known For:Symbolism
Occupation:Poet, academic

Nilmani Phookan (10 September 1933 – 19 January 2023)[1] was an Indian poet in the 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.[2] [3]

Phookan has won the 56th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award, for the year 2020.[4] He was also awarded the 1981 Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese for his poetry collection, Kavita (Kobita).[5] He was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 1990,[6] and received the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest literary honor in India, given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in 2002.[7]

Early life and education

Phookan was born in Dergaon in Golaghat district, Assam. He received his Master's degree inHistory from Gauhati University in 1961. Although he had started writing poetry in the early 1950s.

Career

Phookan started his career as a lecturer at Arya Vidyapeeth College in Guwahati in 1964, where he worked until his retirement in 1992.[8] He has also translated Japanese and European poetry into Assamese.

Phookan won the 56th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award, for the year 2020.[9] [10] He was also awarded the Assam Valley Literary Award in 1997,[11] 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".[12] In 2019, he was awarded a D.Lit. by Dibrugarh University.[13]

Works

Awards and recognition

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/assam-assamese-poet-nilmani-phookan-passes-away.html Noted Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan passes away
  2. [#Ak|Akademi, p. 462]
  3. Since he shares his name another Assamese poet, Nilamani Phukan (1879–1978), he is often referred as Nilamani Phookan(Jr). He had been awarded the 56th highest literacy award Jnanpith Award by the Government of India in 2021.(J
  4. Web site: 4 January 2022. Damodar Mauzo wins Jnanpith Award, here's all you need to know about the renowned Goan writer. 4 January 2022. The Free Press Journal.
  5. Web site: Sahitya Akademi Award 1955-2007 - Assamese. Official listings, Sahitya Akademi website. 24 May 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100420021146/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10301.htm. 20 April 2010. dead.
  6. Web site: Padma Awards. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
  7. Web site: Conferment of Sahitya Akademi Fellowship. Official listings, Sahitya Akademi website. 24 May 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100223112125/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa2.htm. 23 February 2010. dead.
  8. Web site: Nilmani Phookan. India - Poetry International Web. 24 May 2010. 21 July 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110721052731/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=2731. dead.
  9. News: 9 December 2021. Assam poet and Konkani novelist receive Jnanpith Award. The Indian Express. 9 December 2021.
  10. News: 8 December 2021. Poet Nilmani Phookan wins the Jnanpith award. The Times of India. 9 December 2021.
  11. News: Another plume in writer's crown. https://web.archive.org/web/20121024064602/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080413/jsp/northeast/story_9131491.jsp. dead. 24 October 2012. 13 April 2008. The Telegraph.
  12. News: Bhisham Sahni, Kaifi Azmi in Sahitya Akademi. 20 February 2002. The Tribune.
  13. Web site: Dibrugarh University (DU) Confers Doctor of Literature On Poet Nilamani Phukan. Sentinelassam. 20 August 2019. 21 February 2021.
  14. Web site: Noted Assamese Poet Nilmani Phookan Wins Jnanpith Award . www.pratidintime.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20211207100754/https://www.pratidintime.com/noted-assamese-poet-nilmani-phookan-wins/amp/ . 2021-12-07.
  15. Web site: असमिया साहित्यकार नीलमणि फूकन व कोंकणी साहित्यकार दामोदर मौउजो को ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार.

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