Nalinidhar Bhattacharya

Nalinidhar Bhattacharya (4 December 1921 – 1 September 2016)^[1] was an Indian poet and literary critic from Assam. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Mahat Oitijhya in 2002.^[2]

Nalinidhar Bhattacharya
Born	(1921-12-04)4 December 1921 Jorhat, Assam
Died	1 September 2016(2016-09-01) (aged 94)
Nationality	indian
Occupation	Poet, writer, professor
Awards	Sahitya Akademi Award (2002) Assam Valley Literary Award (2006)

His younger brother Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya was also a writer, who was a Sahitya Academy award and Jnanpith Award recipient.

Literary works

His published works include Serasalir Malita, Noni Asane Gharat, Mohot Aitaijya, etc.^[2]

Awards

• Soviet Land Nehru Award (1983)
• Mrinalini Devi Award
• Sahitya Akademi award (2002)^[3]
• Indian Language Parishad award
• Chagganlal Jain award
• Assam Valley Literary Award (2006)^[4] etc.
• Sahityacharya honour by the Asam Sahitya Sabha (2010)^[5][6]
• ‘Papari Kabi’ Ganesh Gogoi award^[7]

See also

• List of Assamese-language poets
• List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Assamese
• Assamese literature