Apurba Sarma
Apurba Sarma 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. And later worked as a staff reporter at The Assam Tribune, as lecturer in economics at Nowgong Girls College, as principal, Nowgong Girls College, and as editor of Ajir Asom, an Assamese daily published by The Sentinel (Guwahati). He is presently the founder-president of Xahitya Mancha Asom, a Guwahati-based society of writers and fans of Assamese literature.
Awards and accolades
- Sahitya Akademi Award for Creative Literature in Assamese
- National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema
- Assam Valley Literary Award for Creative Literature
Jury member
- National Film Award - 2003
- National Film Award – 2007
Author
Books- Six anthologies of short fiction in Assamese
- Asomiya Chalachitrar Sa-Pohar
- The Lone Ranger in a Forsaken Frontier
- Filming 'Literature'
- An Experience of Oppression in Assamese Cinema