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{{Short description|Assamese Writer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2019}}
{{Orphan|date=June 2015}}
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| birth_name = Kamal Kumar Tanti
| birth_date = 1982
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| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| education = PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysic
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| occupation = Assistant Professor, Poet, writer
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| awards = {{plainlist|*Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (2012)
*[[Munin Barkotoki#Munin Barkotoki Award|Munin Barkotoki Literary Award]] (2008)
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'''Kamal Kumar Tanti''' (born 1982)<ref name="thehindu1">{{cite web|author=Ashley Tellis |url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/in-sync-with-subaltern-traditions/article541908.ece |title=In sync with subaltern traditions |publisher=Thehindu.com |date=2010-07-31 |accessdate=2015-06-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museindia.com/authprofile.asp?id=762 |title=Welcome to Muse India |publisher=Museindia.com |date= |accessdate=2015-06-25}}</ref><ref name="cerebration1">{{cite web|url=http://www.cerebration.org/postcolonialpoem.html |title=Cerebration |publisher=Cerebration.org |date= |accessdate=2015-06-25}}</ref> is a well-known young voice in the contemporary world of Assamese Poetry. Kamal is a bilingual poet, critic, writer and translator; and writes both in Assamese and English languages.

He is a nominated Member of Assamese Language Advisory Board of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/aboutus/assamese.jsp|title=..:: Welcome to Sahitya Akademi - Members of Advisory Boards (Assamese) ::..|website=sahitya-akademi.gov.in|access-date=2018-08-15}}</ref> He belongs to the [[Tea-garden community of Assam|Tea-garden labour Community]] in Assam. His first collection of poetry '''''Marangburu Amar Pita''''' (''Our Father Marangburu''), published in 2007, won him the Sahitya Akademi [[Yuva Puraskar]] for 2012,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/yuva_samman_suchi.jsp |title=:: SAHITYA : Akademi Awards |publisher=Sahitya-akademi.gov.in |date= |accessdate=2015-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805114428/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/yuva_samman_suchi.jsp |archive-date=5 August 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.assamtimes.org/node/7704 |title=Kamal Tanti wins Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2012 |publisher=Assamtimes.org |date=2012-12-24 |accessdate=2015-06-25}}</ref> and the Munin Barkotoki Literary Award for 2008.<ref name="thehindu1"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.muninbarkotoki.org/english.html |title=Munin Barkotoki Memorial Trust — English Version |publisher=Muninbarkotoki.org |date= |accessdate=2015-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622115101/http://www.muninbarkotoki.org/english.html |archive-date=22 June 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His second collection of Assamese poetry '''''Uttar-Ouponibeshik Kabita''''' (''Post-colonial Poems'') has been published recently in July, 2018 (Publisher: Papyrus, Guwahati<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.papyrusbooksnbeyond.com/|title=Papyrus – Books & Beyond|website=www.papyrusbooksnbeyond.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-15}}</ref>). His Assamese poems have been included in various anthologies of Assamese poetry and featured in various journals in Assamese. He writes fiction occasionally and few of his short-stories have been included in several anthologies of Assamese fiction. Kamal’s first collection of prose in Assamese '''''Nimnaborgo Somaaj Oitijya''''' (''Subaltern Society's Legacy''), published in 2007, was composed of critical essays on Subaltern historiography and Post-colonial theory, with specific reference to colonial history and cultures of Assam. This book was selected as one of the "Ten Best Books" among all the Assamese books that has been published during the year 2007-08, by Grantha-Bandhab (Friends of Books), a well-known organization in Assam. His second collection of critical essays '''''Uttar-Ouponibeshik Somaluchona''''' (''Post-colonial Criticism'') is due for publication by the end of 2018.

Kamal’s English poems have appeared in many journals, including ''Indian Literature, The Little Magazine, Muse India, Kavya Bharati, Pyrta, Exchanges Literary Journal, Cerebration, NELit Review, Kritya, Visual Verse, Brown Critique, Steer Queer'', etc. His poems also included in several anthologies of English poems, including ''40 Under 40: an anthology of Post-Globalization Poetry, Shout It Out! Anthology, The World I Write In,'' etc.

Kamal has a PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, for which he worked at the [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]], Mumbai and [[Gauhati University]], Guwahati.<ref name="cerebration1" /> Kamal worked for a leading Telematics company in Mumbai, and was a Modeling and Simulation Engineer with a software company in Pune. He was also closely associated with the "Design, calibration & testing of Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT)", onboard [[Astrosat]], the first Indian Multi-wavelength satellite for astronomical observations, to be launched by [[Indian Space Research Organization]] (ISRO), in 2016. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Assam Centre and lives in Sivasagar, Assam, India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rgipt.ac.in/rgipt_center.htm|title=:: Welcome to Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology {{!}} Ratapur Chowk {{!}} Rae Bareli|last=Jha|first=Navneet|website=www.rgipt.ac.in|access-date=2018-08-15}}</ref>

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