Nilamani Phukan gets 56th Jnanpith Award

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Category : Awards Published on: April 13 2022

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Eminent Assamese poet Nilamani Phookan was conferred the 56th Jnanpith Award, the ceremony of which was held for the first time in Assam.
Phookan is the third Assamese to receive the Jnanpith Award after novelist Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1979) and Mamoni Raisom Goswami (2000).
Phookan had won the Sahitya Academy Award in 1981 for his poetry collection ‘Kobita’. He was conferred with the Padma Shri in 1990 and the Sahitya Academy Fellowship in 2002.

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Nilamani Phukan gets 56th Jnanpith Award