Anuradha Sarma Pujari

Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Pujari is one of the most popular writers in Assam today. She is the author of ten novels, including Mereng (a biographical novel about the Indian education activist Indira Miri), Hriday Ek Bigyapan, Neel Prajapati (Blue Butterflies), and most recently Iyat Ekhon Aranya Asil (There Used to be a Forest Here). Pujaree is also the author of four short story collections and five collections of essays. An editor of the largest Assamese weekly newspaper Sadin and the monthly literary magazine Satsori, she has won the Kumar Kishore Memorial Literary Award from Asom Sahitya Sabha (2003). As a journalist in a profession dominated by men in Assam, she is one of the most successful. The author maintains a direct relationship with her readers through a wide range of literary events.