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'''Apurba Sarma''' is a National | '''Apurba Sarma''' is a [[National Film Awards]] winning film critic and a Sahitya Akademi winning author from Assam. He did his Masters in Economics at Guwahati University (1965). And later worked as a staff reporter at [[The Assam Tribune]] (1965--1967), as lecturer in economics at Nowgong Girls College (1967-1997), as principal, Nowgong Girls College (1997-2002), and as editor of Ajir Asom, an Assamese daily published by the Sentinel Group. He is the founder-president of [[Xahitya Mancha Asom]], a Guwahati-based society of writers and fans of Assamese literature. | ||
==Awards and accolades== | ==Awards and accolades== | ||
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==Jury member== | ==Jury member== | ||
*National Film Award | *National Film Award – 2005 | ||
*National Film Award – 2007 | *National Film Award – 2007 | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
* Member — [https://filmcriticscircle.com/ Film Critics Circle of India] | * Member — [https://filmcriticscircle.com/ Film Critics Circle of India] | ||
[[Category: FCCI]] | [[Category: FCCI]] | ||
[[Category: NFA]] | [[Category: NFA — film critics]] | ||
[[Category: Sahitya Akademi]] | [[Category: Sahitya Akademi]] | ||
Latest revision as of 17:52, 16 March 2026
Apurba Sarma is a National Film Awards winning film critic and a Sahitya Akademi winning author from Assam. He did his Masters in Economics at Guwahati University (1965). And later worked as a staff reporter at The Assam Tribune (1965--1967), as lecturer in economics at Nowgong Girls College (1967-1997), as principal, Nowgong Girls College (1997-2002), and as editor of Ajir Asom, an Assamese daily published by the Sentinel Group. He is the founder-president of Xahitya Mancha Asom, a Guwahati-based society of writers and fans of Assamese literature.
Awards and accolades
- Sahitya Akademi Award for Creative Literature in Assamese (2000)
- National Film Award (Swarna Kamal) for Best Book on Cinema (2002)
- Assam Valley Literary Award for Creative Literature (2015)
Jury member
- National Film Award – 2005
- National Film Award – 2007
Author
Books
- Six anthologies of short fiction in Assamese
- Axomiya Chalachitrar Sa-Pohar (Light and Shade on Assamese Cinema)
- The Lone Ranger in a Forsaken Frontier (on the life of the pioneer filmmaker of Indian Cinema in the North East)
Features in journals
- Filming 'Literature' (Deep Focus, Vol.VI 1996)
- An Experience of Oppression in Assamese Cinema (Deep Focus, vol. VII No 3 &4, 1997-98)
External links
- Member — Film Critics Circle of India