Harekrishna Deka
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Harekrishna Deka was a former member of the Indian Police Service who is now known for his writing. Although he began writing poetry as a hobby while working on the police force, he later quit to become a writer. He was the Director General of Police for Assam from 2000–2003.[citation needed]
Poetry career
[edit]Harekrishna Deka is one of the most prominent poet-critics of his generation.[citation needed] He started writing poems and short stories since his student days. He was one of the most prolific writers of Assam's Ramdhenu Era.[citation needed]
He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award for his poetic contribution in Ann Ejan in 1987,[citation needed] and he was awarded the Katha Award for his short story, Bandiyar (Prisoner) in 1995.[citation needed] After retiring as the DGP of Assam, Deka was the editor of the English daily, The Sentinel for brief period before serving as editor of the Assamese literary monthly Gariyasi.[citation needed]
Awards
[edit]He won the Assam Literary Award in 2010.[citation needed]
Bibliography
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Swarabor (Voices) 1972
- Ratir Sobhajatra (Procession by Night) 1978
- Aan Ejan (Another One), 1986, also translated to Bengali and Oriya
- Kabita 1960-1980 (Poems 1960-1980), 2002
- Bhalpoar Babe Exar (A Word for Love), 2003
- Xanmihali Barnamala (Mixed Alphabets), 2010
- Sea-Scare (poems translated to English), 2001
Short stories
[edit]- Prakritik aru Anyanya (The Natural and other stories), 1900
- Madhusudanar Dolong (Madhusudan's Bridge), 1992
- Bandiyar (Captive), 1996, Also translated to Oriya
- Post-modern athaba Galpa (Post-modern or Short Story), 2001
- Mrityudanda (Death Sentence), 2006
- Galpa aru Kalpa (Story and Fiction), 2009
Literary criticism
[edit]- Adhunikatavad aru Anyanya Prabandha (Modernism and other essays), 1998
- Beekson aru Xandhan (Insight and Investigation), 2000
- Dristi aru Sristi (Look and Creation), 2006
- Nilamani Phukan: Kabi aru Kabita (Nilamani Phukan: the poet and his poems), 2010
Novels
[edit]- Agantuk (Strangers), 2008
Edited books
[edit]- Tarun Prajanmar Kabita (Poetry of the Young Generation), 2005
Translations
[edit]- Pratixarita Rashmi (Refracted Light). Translation of poems of Saint John Perse, Yanis Ritsos, Vasco Popa and Jaroslav Seifert, 1992
Social criticism
[edit]- Prabrajan aru Anupravex (Immigration and Infiltration), 2010
- Xarbabhoumatva, Xantraxvad aru Nagarik Xamaj (Sovereignty, Terrorism and Civil Society), 2010
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- Official Website of Harekrishna Deka
- Indian Review: Harekrishna Deka Wins the Assam Valley Literary Award, 2010 Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- An Interview with the Poet: Harekrishna Deka Archived 28 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- An Introduction to Harekrisha Deka’s Poetry by Prabhat Bora
- Harekrishna Deka: In discussion with Uddipana Goswami[permanent dead link]
- INTERVIEW WITH HAREKRISHNA DEKA, POET AND RETIRED POLICE OFFICER, BY UDDIPANA GOSWAMI ON 20TH MARCH, 2006.
- Harekrishna Deka's Poems in Kavitayan[permanent dead link]
- The Prisoner - short story
- The Dawn (An Assamese Poem of Harekrishna Deka in Translation