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'''Apurba Sarma''' is a National Award 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.
'''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==

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)
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