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Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (14 October 1924 – 6 August 1997) was an Indian writer. He was one of the pioneers of modern Assamese literature.
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1924 – 1997) was an eminent Assamese writer and one of the pioneers of Assamese literature. He was the first Assamese to receive Jnanpith – the highest literary award in India.
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1924–1997) was a prominent Assamese novelist and short story writer. He is one of the pioneers of the modern Assamese literature. He was the first ever recipient of the Jnanpith Award given to an Assamese writer in the year 1979. He died in 1997 at the age of 83 years.
Birendra. Kumar portrays the naked picture of the disintegrating structure of the Assamese rural society and its socio-economic dimensions in his novel Ai. (Mother, 1960) and Munichunier Pohai, 1976. Mrityunjay, his Jnanpith award. winning novel is based on India's freedom movement in Assam.
"Mritunjaya" is the most highly acclaimed novel and the best literary work of Dr. Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya. He was awarded the Jnanpith award for this novel in 1979 which is the highest literary award in India.
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya was the first ever recipient of the Jnanpith Award given to an Assamese writer in the year 1979 for his novel “Mritunjay”. In 1961 he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel “Iyaruingom”. During 1983-85 he took over Assam Sahitya Sabha as the president.
Jan 25, 2014 · Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, 56, the winner of this year's Bhartiya Jnan Pith Award, the premier national literary prize, has had a varied career. Soon after getting his BSc degree he participated in the freedom struggle.
Feb 4, 2020 · Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya’s novel Yaruingam, written in the 1950s and finally published in 1960, was centred on the Naga movement for self-determination. In the post-colonial period, the novel has often been considered a landmark literary moment of Assamese literature, especially in the writing of political novels.
‘Yaruingam’ (1960) and ‘Mrityunjoy’ (1970) are two notable novels of Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1924-97) where Bhattacharya has dealt with the philosophy of non-violence of Mahatma Gandhi and the plight of the common people in the freedom movement. Bhattacharya is a humanitarian.
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (14 October 1924 – 6 August 1997) was one of the pioneers of modern Assamese literature. He was the first Assamese author to win the nation’s most prestigious literary award, the Jnanpith Award (1979).
