Bijoy Sankar Barman

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Bijoy Sankar Barman (born 1980) is an Indian poet, writer and translator who writes in Assamese language. He has been awarded with Yuva Puraskar by Sahitya Akademi [1]

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Barman was recognized by Indian Express as one of the ten ‘Best Young Writers’ of India in 2012. [2]

Apart from English and all other constitutionalized regional languages in India, his poems have been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, Estonian etc. The Mexican-Spanish version of his poem has been broadcast by Radio UdeG. [3] He participated in literary events abroad.

His poem has been included in Great Indian poems, [4] a representative anthology of 3000 years of Indian poetry edited by poet-diplomat Abhay K.

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