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Rita Chowdhury

b. 1960, born Nampong, writes in Assamese, English, novelist, poet

Rita Chowdhury is an Indian poet and novelist who writes Assamese literature and is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award. She is the editor of the Assamese literary magazine Gariyoshi and a former director of the National Book Trust, India. She has been associate professor and lecturer at Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam in the Political Science Department and was active in the Assam Movement in the early 1980s.

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Books on record

On Open Library

Editions Open Library lists under this name; a namesake may slip in.

Awards

2008Sahitya Akademi Award for Deo Langkhui

Elsewhere

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Also writing in Assamese