Siddhartha Sarma

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Siddhartha Sarma
BornAssam
LanguageEnglish
Notable worksThe Grasshopper's Run
East of The Sun
Year of the Weeds
Carpenters and Kings
Twilight in a Knotted World
Notable awards2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award
2011 Bal Sahitya Puraskar

Siddhartha Sarma (Assamese: সিদ্ধাৰ্থ শৰ্মা) is an Indian novelist and journalist from Assam who writes in English.[1][2]

Biography[edit]

Siddhartha Sarma is from Guwahati, Assam.[1] While working as a journalist for a business magazine in Delhi, he published the young adult novel The Grasshopper's Run with Scholastic in 2009.[1][3] To write the novel, he conducted archival research and incorporated stories he was told by his grandfather.[1][4] The story is set in Assam and Nagaland during the Second World War and follows the friendship between a Naga and Assamese boy.[5][6][7]

Nilanjana S Roy recommended the book,[8] and it won the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award in the Children's Literature category.[5][9] In 2011, Sarma was awarded the Bal Sahitya Puraskar for The Grasshopper's Run by the Sahitya Academy.[10][11]

He has also written East of The Sun, a travelogue published in 2011 based on his travels in the North East, and emails he sent to friends to describe his journey.[12][13] In 2018, he published the novel Year of the Weeds, which is based on the Dongria Kondh campaign against mining.[14][15][16]

In 2019, he published the non-fiction book Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India after nine years of research on a concept he developed while completing his thesis for a Master of Letters at the University of Glasgow.[17][18] His next novel, titled Twilight in a Knotted World,[19] was released in September 2020.[20][21] In 2021, his work was published in the essay collection Where the Gods Dwell.[22]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Borpujari, Utpal (24 October 2009). "Grasshoppers & hilly tales". Deccan Herald. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  2. ^ Deivasigamani, T. (2019). Subaltern Discourses. MJP Publishers. p. 241. ISBN 9788180943669. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  3. ^ White, Gregor (13 May 2011). "Book Review: The Grasshopper's Run, by Siddhartha Sarma". Daily Record. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  4. ^ Jain, Ritika (7 January 2019). "8 books for young adults that borrow from the real world". The Indian Express. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b Molekhi, Pankaj (12 September 2010). "Revenge tale set in the North-East during World War II". The Economic Times. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  6. ^ Srivastava, Neelam; Ciocca, Rossella, eds. (2017). Indian Literature and the World: Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 211. ISBN 9781137545497. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  7. ^ Kashyap, Samudra Gupta (8 May 2015). "Assamese, Manipuri, Naga authors have kept alive World War II fought 70 years ago". The Indian Express. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  8. ^ Roy, Nilanjana S (1 September 2009). "Nilanjana S Roy: Teenage wasteland: What to read before you get old". Business Standard. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  9. ^ Bagchi, Shrabonti (27 September 2010). "I know what you read this summer". DNA India. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  10. ^ "Three NE writers named for Bal Sahitya Puraskar". Times of India. 18 August 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  11. ^ "Sahitya Akademi announces Bal Sahitya Puraskars - Hindustan Times". www.hindustantimes.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  12. ^ Mitra, Anindita (27 January 2011). "'East of the Sun': Notes from the Northeast". DNA. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  13. ^ "The Hindu : Arts / Books : Stories of sojourns". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 12 February 2011.
  14. ^ Shekhar, Hansda Sowvendra (21 October 2018). "Why a journalist wrote about the Niyamgiri agitation in the form of a Young Adult novel". Scroll.in. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  15. ^ Krithika, R. (16 November 2018). "A novel for the next generation". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  16. ^ Reviews of Year of the Weeds
  17. ^ "Book examines history of Christianity in India". Deccan Herald. Press Trust of India. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  18. ^ Reviews of Carpenters and Kings
  19. ^ Popli, Bhumika (21 July 2020). "'A good sentence or turn of phrase can make one feel pure happiness': Author Siddhartha Sarma". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  20. ^ Priyadershini, S (31 December 2020). "A book, a song, a dance...created during lockdown". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  21. ^ Reviews of Twilight in a Knotted World
  22. ^ Narayan, Shoba (21 January 2022). "'Where the Gods Dwell': a modern guide to Indian shrines". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
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