Apurba Sarma

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Apurba Sarma
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OccupationFilm Critic
NationalityIndian
Notable awardsNational Film Award for Best Book on Cinema, Sahitya Akademi Award for Creative Literature in Assamese (in 2000, for "Baghe Tapur Rati", a short story collection)...[ citation needed ]

Apurba Sarma (born January 1, 1943) is a National Award-winning film critic and a Sahitya Akademi winning author from Halem, Sonitpur district, Assam. He is one of the brothers of Arun Sarma who is also a Sahitya Academy Award winning author. He did his master's in economics at Gauhati University (1965). [1] 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 (Guwahati). [1] He is presently the founder-president of Xahitya Mancha Asom, [2] [3] a Guwahati-based society of writers and fans of Assamese literature.

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