# Selected Assamese Poetry

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2016/03/25/selected-assamese-poetry/
- Published: 2016-03-25T03:46:11+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Translator:** Surajit Borooah[⌊WP_20160324_15_23_50_Pro⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WP_20160324_15_23_50_Pro.jpg)
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Pages:** 156 **Year of Publication:** 2015 **Price:** Rs 300 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
115-1 (9789350451151)

_**About the Translator**_
 Born in 1945, Surajit Borooah has been a broadcaster
with All India Radio and Doordarshan, president of North East India Forum for English
Studies and the vice-president of North East Writers’ Forum, a professor of English
at Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati (where he retired in 2006), and an eminent 
sportsperson in the 1960s and 1970s. He has also been on the Board, in several capacities,
of the B. Borooah Cancer Institute, Guwahati. He is an avid photographer and was
the president of the North East Photographic Society. He specializes in translating
modern Assamese poetry into English and his translations and writings have been 
published in various journals including Sahitya Akademi’s _Indian Literature_. His
translation of Dr Jayanti Chutia’s novel has been published as _Tears of Solitude_.

_**About the Book**_
 This is an anthology of English translations of modern Assamese
poetry since 1950 and features poems by Hem Barua, Nalinidhar Bhattacharya, Naba
Kanta Barua, Keshab Mahanta, Ajit Barua, Hari Borkakoty, Hiren Bhattacharya, Nirmalprova
Bordoloi, Nilmoni Phukan, Bireswar Barua, Hirendra Nath Dutta, Rabindra Sarkar, 
Meera Thakur, Harekrishna Deka, Kabin Phukan, Anees Uz Zaman, Sananta Tanti, Karabi
Deka Hazarika, Manjit Singh, Sameer Tanti, Koustuvmoni Saikia, Uday Kumar Sarma,
Prayag Saikia and Anupam Kumar.

Professor Borooah has sought to make this collection as representative as possible
of Assamese poetry, working within the challenges of translating where some exceptional
poems, inevitably, do not lend themselves well to translation. This book painstakingly
exhibits the themes, concerns, politics and styles that have informed the works 
of modern Assamese poets.

_**Contents**_
 85 poems in translation