Dinesh Chandra Goswami
Dr. Dinesh Chandra Goswami is an Assamese writer and winner of the Sahitya Akademi's Bal Sahitya Puraskar for 2014.
Early life
Dinesh Chandra Goswami was born at Ulubari Sattra village of Nalbari district of Assam in 1949. He did MSc and PhD degrees from Gauhati University. He started his career, in 1970, as lecturer in physics at B. Borooah College and then joined Cotton College, Guwahati. He later worked in the CSIR Publications and Information Directorate and the CSIR Headquarters at New Delhi and then in various levels as a scientist at the Regional Research Laboratory, Jorhat. He retired in 2009 as the Adviser to the Director. Besides Assamese he knows English and Hindi.Career as a writer
He started writing in the children's corners of newspapers at the age of 11. His first book was published in 1975. He has published about seven novels, eight short story collections, one children's drama, 53 popular science books, and various text books and guide books. Some of his significant works include novels such as 'Jonakir Jilikani', 'Atmajivanir Prayas', 'Sabda Nirontor Sabda', 'Divya Upaban', 'Atmajibonir Dwitiy Prayas', 'Tritonor Abhiyan', 'Abhinna Hriday', 'Kalpajagat', 'Antarvahi', 'Mantur Parivesh', and 'Asha aru Akangshar Kusum Butali'. A collection of his self-selected science fiction short stories in Assamese has been published by the National Book Trust, India, and its English version has also been published by them. More than 40 of his science fiction dramas and more than 100 of his science features, besides a large number of his talks and discussions, have been broadcast by AIR. He has been regularly publishing popular science and social columns in newspapers and magazines. He was the chief editor of the Assamese Encyclopaedia and an Assamese language dictionary the 'Saraighat Abhidhan', and various other science dictionaries and popular science volumes. He is also the editor of a series of 125 world famous classics translated into Assamese, besides many other compilations and magazines.Awards
He has won several awards including:- Three Asom Sahitya Sabha Awards
- National Prize for Children's Literature—1980
- NBT Prize for children's literature—1992
- National Award for Best S&T coverage in mass media by National Council for Science and Technology Communication -- 1997
- Honoured by the President of India for contribution to children's literature—2007
- Publication Board Assam, Award—2012
- Bisan Lal Agarwal Environment Award—2013
- Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar—2014
- Lifetime achievement award from the Publication Board, Assam—2016.