# Selected Assamese Poetry Volume II

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2018/12/18/selected-assamese-poetry-volume-ii/
- Published: 2018-12-18T02:43:37+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Translator:** Surajit Borooah[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Selected-Assamese-Poetry.jpeg)
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Pages:** 152 **Year of Publication:** 2018 **Price:** Rs 400 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
183-0 (9789350451830)

_**About the Translator**_
 Born in 1945, Surajit Borooah, besides being a sportsperson
of eminence in the 1960s and 1970s, was a well-known broadcaster of All India Radio
and Doordarshan. He retired as a Professor of English from Arya Vidyapeeth College
in 2006. He was the president of North East India Forum for English Studies and 
the vice-president of North East Writers’ Forum. He is an avid photographer and 
was president of the North East Photographic Society. He was the president of the
Board of Trustees, member of the Management Council and member, Board of Directors
of the B. Borooah Cancer Institute, Guwahati.

Besides writing innumerable articles in newspapers and journals, he specializes 
in translating modern Assamese poetry into English and his translations and writings
have been published in various journals of the state and the country, including 
_Indian Literature_ of the Sahitya Akademi. He has published the translation of 
a novel by Dr. Jayanti Chutia titled _Tears of __Solitude_ and the **[first volume](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/selected-assamese-poetry/)**
of _**Selected Assamese Poetry**_, published by **Writers Workshop**, India, in 
2015. He was invited to the Bengaluru Poetry Festival in 2017 as a panelist. He 
received **[the runners-up award](http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/news/surajit-borooahs-translated-poems-adjudged-joint-runners-up-at-the-muse-india-translation-awards-2017/)**
of _Muse India_ Satish Verma awards, 2017.

_**About the Book**_
 This is Surajit Borooah’s second anthology of English translations
of modern Assamese poetry since 1950 and features poems by Prem Narayan Nath, Anubhab
Tulasi, Anupama Basumatari, Deba Prasad Talukdar, Archana Pujari, Nilim Kumar, Nilima
Thakuria Haque, Lutfa Hanum Selima Begum, Rajib Barua, Manoj Borpujari, Ismail Hussain,
Bipuljyoti Saikia, M. Kamaluddin Ahmed, Birinchi Rabha, Atanu Bhattacharya, Manikuntala
Bhattacharya, Mrinalini Saikia, Ganga Mohan Mili, Hridayananda Gogoi, Jibon Narah,
Kushal Dutta, Pranab Barman, Danny Gaam, Bijoy Shankar Barman and Mridul Haloi.

_**Contents**_
 77 poems in translation