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.

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, and he was awarded the Katha Award for his short story, Bandiyar (Prisoner) in 1995. 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.

Awards[edit]

He won the Assam Literary Award in 2010.

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

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