Background
Barua was born 16 February 1939 at Janji, in the Jorhat sub-division of the Sibasagar district.
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Bhaben Barua
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He attended Boragaon Village Primary School (Janji) for four years (1944 to 1947), and Bamunpukhuri High School (Janji)(1948 to 1951). He passed the M. East. Standards in the First Division from the Jorhat Sub-division. He studied at Cotton Collegiate School (Guwahati) from 1952 to 1956 and passed in 1956 the Matriculation Examination in the first division with a merit scholarship.
From 1958 to 1960 he studied art at Jagannath Barua College (Jorhat) on a merit scholarship.
He got his Bachelor in English from Schotish Church College (Calcutta) in 1960. Starting in 1961 he studied for his Master of Arts in English literature at Delhi University, and graduated in 1963.
Career
Education East. He worked for a year as a high school teacher, and then as a news reader for All India Radio, Delhi (1961–1963). He became a lecturer in English literature at the Punjabi University of Patiala in 1963, and joined the Gauhati University in 1964, whence he retired as Professor of English in 2003. From 1998 to 2000 he was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
Achievements
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Assam Publication Board Literary Award, 1978 - for the book of poems "Sonali Jahaj". Sahitya Akademi Award, 1979 - for “Sonali Jahaj” (the first book of the post-second world war Modern Axomiya Poetry to receive this award) 5th Padmanath Vidyabinod Memorial Literary Award (2014) (Natun Prithivi (in Assamese), published when he was studying in class VIII) (i) Sonali Jahaj (in Assamese) (ii) Pondharata Kabita (in Assamese) (iii) Baga Jui Kola Jui Aru Anyanya Kabita (in Assamese) (iv) Axomiya Kabita: Rupantarar Parba (in Assamese) (v) Axomiya Kabita: Bivartanar Parba (in Assamese) (vi) Prasanga: Kabita (in Assamese) (vii) Prasanga: Banikanta (in Assamese) (viii) Prasanga: Jyotiprasad (in Assamese) (ix) Prasanga: Bhabendranath (in Assamese) (x) Axomor Bouddhik Duravasthar Prasangat (in Assamese) (xi) Language and the National Question in Northeast India (in English) (xii) Science, Poetry and Politics (in English).
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Awards
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Assam Publication Board Literary Award, 1978 - for the book of poems "Sonali Jahaj". Sahitya Akademi Award, 1979 - for “Sonali Jahaj” (the first book of the post-second world war Modern Axomiya Poetry to receive this award) 5th Padmanath Vidyabinod Memorial Literary Award (2014) Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations.Assam Publication Board Literary Award, 1978 - for the book of poems "Sonali Jahaj". Sahitya Akademi Award, 1979 - for “Sonali Jahaj” (the first book of the post-second world war Modern Axomiya Poetry to receive this award) 5th Padmanath Vidyabinod Memorial Literary Award (2014) Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations.