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{{Short description|Writer, poet, playwright, translator, journalist and actor of Assam}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Other people5|Binanda Chandra Barua|Ananda Ram Baruah|Ananda Chandra Agarwala|Ananda Chandra Dutta|Chandra Kumar Agarwala}}
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| birth_date = 31 December 1907
| birth_place = Moran, [[Jorhat district|Jorhat]], Assam
| death_date = 27 January 1983
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'''Ananda Chandra Barua''' (1907–1983) was a writer, poet, playwright, translator, journalist and actor from [[Assam]].<ref name="Bipuljyoti">{{cite web |author=Bipuljyoti Saikia |url=http://www.bipuljyoti.in/authors/anandachandra.html |title=Bipuljyoti Saikia's Home Page : Authors & Poets – Ananda Chandra Barua |publisher=Bipuljyoti.in |access-date=19 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140805013645/http://www.bipuljyoti.in/authors/anandachandra.html |archive-date=5 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="vedanti">{{cite web|url=http://www.vedanti.com/Legends/ananda_chandra_barua.htm |title=Ananda Chandra Barua |publisher=Vedanti.com |access-date=19 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803171105/http://www.vedanti.com/Legends/ananda_chandra_barua.htm |archive-date=3 August 2016 }}</ref><ref name="Das1991">{{cite book|author=Sisir Kumar Das|title=A History of Indian Literature: 1800–1910, western impact: indian response / Sisir Kumar Das|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHklK65TKQ0C&pg=PA751|access-date=21 May 2013|year=1991|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-006-5|pages=751–}}</ref> He is popularly known as '''Bokulbonor Kobi''' (বকুলবনৰ কবি) in Assamese literacy society.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070223/asp/northeast/story_7424486.asp |title=Musical tribute to poets |publisher=[[The Telegraph, Calcutta]]|access-date=19 May 2013}}</ref> He was honoured with, most notably the ''Padma Shri'' title and ''Sahitya Akademi'' award.

==Literacy works==
;Published books:<ref name="Bipuljyoti"/>
*Porag (1930) (Poem collection)
*Bijoya (1932) (drama)
*Hafizor Sur (1933) (translation of poems)
*Bisorjan (1933) (drama)
*Ranjan Rashmi (1934), (Poem collection)
*Puspak (1934) (sonnets)
*Nal Damayanty (1934) (drama)
*Meghdoot Purbamegh (1940) (translated poems)
*Komota Kuwori (1940) (drama)
*Asiar Jyoti (1960)
;Translation work;<ref name="Bipuljyoti"/>
*Soviet Kabita (1968)(translated poems)
*Kumar Sambhav (1969)(translated poems)
*Paporir Porimal (1969) (Poem collection)
*Bokul Bonor Kabita (1976)(Poem collection)
*Sei Nimati Puware Pora (1982) (Poem collection)
*Kopoi Kuwari (Children drama)
*Nilanjan (drama)
*Pondit Modon Mohan Malaviyar Jiboni (biography of [[Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya]])
*Ethan From (translations)
;Unpublished but completed works:<ref name="Bipuljyoti"/>
*Panchami (children drama)
*Tejimola (children drama)
*Phulora (children’s one-act-play)
*Sahjahanor Ontim (translated play)
*Bonik Bondhu (translated play)
*Sitaharan (drama)
*Mrigamaya (drama) and
*Banipath (for school curriculum)
*Agnigarh (drama)
*Asomiya Deka (novel) and
*Amar Sahitya (for public education)

==Awards and honours==
Barua received the fourth-highest civilian award ‘[[Padma Shri]]' ([[Padma Shri Awards (1970–1979)|1970]]) from the [[Government of India]] on 21 April 1970.<ref name="vedanti"/>

For his poetry book ''Bokul Bonor Kabita'' (1976), he achieved the [[Sahitya Academy Award]] in 1977.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/showSearchAwardsResult.jsp?year=&author=&awards=AA&language=ASSAMESE |title=Akademi Awards Information for Assamese |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |access-date=19 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107101418/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/showSearchAwardsResult.jsp?year=&author=&awards=AA&language=ASSAMESE |archive-date=7 January 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

''Bakulbon Park'' (বকুলবন উদ্যান) is named after Ananda Chandra Barua in [[Jorhat]] as a tribute to him.<ref>{{cite journal|author=The Times of India |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-06/guwahati/30366387_1_majuli-programme-bhupenda |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616113231/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-06/guwahati/30366387_1_majuli-programme-bhupenda |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 June 2013 |title=Majuli remembers 'Hudhakantha' at ceremony |date=6 November 2011 |journal=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=19 May 2013}}</ref>

The '''Bakul Bon Award''' is conferred every year in the fields of dancing, music, art and literature in the memory of 'Bakul Bonor Kabi' Ananda Chandra Barua by the Bakul Bon Trust, Assam which carries a sum of Rs 10,000 in cash and a citation.<ref>{{cite journal|author=TI Trade |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=jan1512/state06 |title=Bakul Bon Award to Maniram Sonowal |publisher=Assamtribune.com |date=15 January 2012 |access-date=19 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813212216/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=jan1512%2Fstate06 |archive-date=13 August 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=TI Trade |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=jan1511/state06 |title=Bakul Bon Award for 2011 to Bolai Ram Senapati |publisher=Assamtribune.com |date=15 January 2011 |access-date=19 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813210306/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=jan1511%2Fstate06 |archive-date=13 August 2014 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Assamese literature]]
*[[History of Assamese literature]]
*[[List of Asam Sahitya Sabha presidents]]
*[[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Assamese]]
*[[List of Assamese-language poets]]
*[[List of Assamese writers with their pen names]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hafiz-and-i/ Hafiz and I], a translated poem by Ananda Chandra Barua at poemhunter.com.
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=bMsGmbALl5sC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=Ananda+Chandra+Barua&source=bl&ots=WaFVW_9T1o&sig=G18rkLlEZNCEwGZCNFmqVtErj54&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sY-bUfDAOciNrQf-mIGgCw&ved=0CH4Q6AEwDg#v=onepage&q=Ananda%20Chandra%20Barua&f=false N. Sharma (1976). Assamese Literature]. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 91–. {{ISBN|978-3-447-01736-7}}. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
*[http://onlinesivasagar.com/gallery2/index.php/Assam-in-News/Tribute-to-Dr-Bhupen-Hazarika/bhupen-hazarika-ananda-chandra-barua An image of Ananda Chandra Barua] with [[Bhupen Hazarika]] at onlinesivasagar.com.

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[[Category:Banaras Hindu University alumni]]
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