Apurba Sarma

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.

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