Sameer Tanti

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| birth_place = Karbi Anglong, Assam, India

| occupation = poet, translator, editor

| language = Assamese

| nationality = Indian

| education = MA in English Literature

| alma_mater = Gauhati University

| period = 21st century

| genres = Poetry

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| notableworks = Kadam Phular Raati

| spouse = Liliban Kolkita (m. 1980)

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Sameer Tanti (born 6 February 1955) is an Assamese language poet, storyteller, translator, painter and social worker from India. He is the 2012 winner of the Assam Valley Literary Award.{{cite web |url= https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/assam-valley-literary-award-to-sameer-tanti/articleshow/19291139.cms?from=mdr |title= Assam Valley Literary Award to Sameer Tanti |date= 30 March 2013|publisher= The Economic Times|access-date= 31 August 2022}} TantI was born in Bihora tea estate, Golaghat. In 2024, he won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his book of poems “Foringbure Bator Kotha Jane”.https://assam.news18.com/news/assam/samir-tati-won-the-sahitya-akademi-award-for-his-poem-fringbore-bat-katha-jane-tv-biju-kd-430342.html

Biography

Sameer Tant was born on 6 February 1955 at Behora, Mikirchang tea estate in the Karbi Anglong district of Assam, India.{{cite news| url= https://www.telegraphindia.com/north-east/verse-in-proletariat-heart/cid/1556571| title= Verse in Proletariat Heart : Interview with Sameer Tanti|publisher=Telegraph India|date= 21 May 2004| access-date= 31 August 2022}} He studied at Bihora Mikirchang P

primary school in Golaghat, higher secondary from Haflong Government College, graduation in English literature from Dergaon college and Master's degree in English from Gauhati University in 1983. He worked as a faculty member at Saraighat College before working as a translator with an English daily newspaper in Guwahati and then as a tourist information officer in the Department of Tourism, Government of Assam.

Works

Sameer Tanti has written fourteen poetry books, four critical essays, and two translations of African and Japanese books. he has also edited two short story collections.{{cite news| url= https://www.sentinelassam.com/melange/traversing-into-the-subliminal-consciousness-in-conversation-with-eminent-assamese-poet-sameer-tanti/| title= Traversing into Subliminal Consciousness : Conversation with Eminent Assamese Poet Sameer Tanti|publisher=The Sentinel|date= 18 November 2018| access-date= 31 August 2022}} In his works he strives to bridge the growing disparity among different sections of society.{{cite news| url= https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/assam-valley-literary-award-to-sameer-tanti/articleshow/19291139.cms| title= Assam Valley Award to Sameer Tanti|publisher=The Economic Times|date= 30 May 2013| access-date= 31 August 2022}} He has presented his poetry at several international forums like Indian Poetry Festival (1987), Asian Poetry Festival (1988) and World Poetry Festival (1989).

Awards

  • 2012 :- Assam Valley Literary Award
  • 2016 :- Padmanath Vidyabinod Literary Award
  • 2017 :- Ramanath Bhattacharya Foundation Literary Award
  • 2019 :- Shortlisted for Sahitya Akademi Award for his book "Kayakolper Bela"
  • 2024 :- Sahitya Akademi Award for the Book Foringbure Bator Kotha Jane{{Cite web |last=Tribune |first=The Assam |date=2024-12-18 |title=Three Assam litterateurs honoured with Sahitya Akademi Award 2024 |url=https://assamtribune.com/assam/three-assam-litterateurs-honoured-with-sahitya-akademi-award-2024-1561566 |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=assamtribune.com |language=en}}

Bibliography

  • 1985 :- Yuddha Bhumir Kabitaa
  • Shokakul Upatyaka
  • Tej Andhaaror Nao
  • Somoy, Sabda, Sapon
  • 2001 :- Kadam Phular Raati
  • 2012 :- Ananda Aru Bedonaar Baivab
  • 2013 :- Bishad Sangeet
  • 2021 :- Foringbure Bator Kotha Jane

References