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HOMEN BORGOHAIN

May 15, 2021

Eminent Assamese litterateur and journalist Homen Borgohain died in Guwahati following post-Covid complications.

About:

  • His body of work includes 11 novels and four non-fictions.

  • He won the Sahitya Akademi in 1978 for his novel Pita Putra but returned the award in 2015 to protest the growing intolerance in India.

  • He was serving as the editor-in-chief of Assamese daily Niyomiya Barta until his death.

  • He has been separated from his wife Nirupama Borgohain, also a noted litterateur and journalist, for several years.

Source : The Hindu

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