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{{short description|Indian poet and lyricist}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Hiren Bhattacharyya
| image = Hiruda.jpg
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1932|07|28}}<ref name="Amar Asom">Amar Asom Newspaper, Date: 5 July 2012, Accessdate=2012-07-04, Thursday</ref>{{better source|date=May 2019|reason=Can't be cross verified}}
| birth_place = [[Jorhat]], [[Assam]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2012|07|04|1932|07|28}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=jul0412/at0154|title=Poet Hiren Bhattacharyya passes away |publisher=The Assam Tribune |date=4 July 2012 |accessdate=4 July 2012}}</ref>
| death_place = [[Guwahati]], Assam
| nationality = Indian
| other_names = Hiruda
| known_for = Poet
| occupation = Poet , lyricist
| organisation = All India Students Federation (AISF)
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| awards = [[Sahitya Akademi Award]]
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'''Hiren Bhattacharyya''' (28 July 1932 – 4 July 2012), popularly known as '''Hiruda''', was an Indian poet and lyricist best for his works in the [[Assamese literature]]. He had innumerable works published in [[Assamese language|Assamese]] and achieved many prizes and accolades for his poetry.<ref name=vedanti>{{cite web|url=http://www.vedanti.com/Legends/hiren_bhattacharjya.htm |title=Hiren Bhattacharjya |website=vedanti.org |accessdate=11 May 2019}}</ref>

==Biography==
[[File:Hiru-Da-by-Vikramjit-Kakati.png|thumb|The Final Journey of Hiru Da]]
Bhattacharyya was born in [[Jorhat]], [[Assam]] in the year 1932.<ref name=vedanti/> After battling for life almost three months, he died on 4 July 2012 in [[Guwahati]], Assam. He is survived by his wife and daughter.<ref name="thehindu"/>

== Literary works==
Bhattacharyya mainly worked in the field of [[Assamese poetry]]. He was the editor of several Assamese magazines and newspapers. Some of the newspapers he worked on are ''Chitrabon'', ''Monon'' and ''Antorik''. He was the poetry editor of the Assamese magazine [[Prantik]] for over three decades.<ref name="thehindu"/>

; Books
His published anthologies of poetry include:
* ৰৌদ্ৰ কামনা ''(Roudro Kamona),''(1968)
* কবিতাৰ ৰ'দ ''(Kobitar Rod'' ), (1976)
* তোমাৰ বাঁহী ''(Tomar Bahi)''
* সুগন্ধি পখিলা ''(Xugondhi Pokhilaa),'' (1981)
* মোৰ দেশ আৰু প্ৰেমৰ কবিতা ''(Mor Desh aru Mor Premor Kobita),'' (1972)<ref name="Amar Asom"/>
* বিভিন্ন দিনৰ কবিতা ''(Bibhinno Dinor Kobita)''
* শইচৰ পথাৰ মানুহ (''Shoichor Pothar Manuh'' ), (1991)
* মোৰ প্ৰিয় বৰ্ণমালা ''(Mur Prio Bornomala),'' (1995)
* ভালপোৱাৰ বুকু মাটি ''(Bhalpuwar Buka Mati),'' (1995)
* ভালপোৱাৰ দিকচৌ বাটেৰে ''(Bhalpuwar Dikchou Batere),'' (2000)

; Collections of nursery rhymes
* ল'ৰা ধেমালি ''(Lora Dhemali'' ) (1991)
* অকন ধেমালি ''(Akon Dhemali'' )(1991)

; Others-
* Ancient Gongs, (English Translation)
* জোনাকী মন ও অন্যান্য (Jonaki Mon O Onyano) etc. (Bengali Translation)

Few sample stanzas from his famous Assamese poems are:
{{quote|'' তুমিতো জানাই

এই কবিৰ আৰু একো নাই।

এটাই মাথোঁ কামিজ

তাৰো ছিগো-ছিগো চিলাই।

প্ৰেম নিশ্চয় এনেকুৱাই

আৱৰণ খুলি হৃদয় জুৰায়।''

|sign=[[Hiren Bhattacharya]]|source=Bhogali (1971)}} {{quote|''মৃত্যুওতো এটা শিল্প, জীৱনৰ কঠিন শিলত কটা এটি নিৰ্লোভ ভাষ্কৰ্য!''|sign=[[Hiren Bhattacharya]]|source=}}

==Awards==
#Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award in 1993.
# Bishnu Rabha Award, 1985
# Rajaji Puroskar, 1984-85 awarded by Bharatiya Bidya Bhawan
# Soviet Desh Neheru Award, 1987<ref name="thehindu"/>
# [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1992 for his anthology of poems 'Saichor Pathar Manuh'.<ref name="thehindu">{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article3602991.ece | title=Assamese poet Hiren Bhattacharyya is dead | date=5 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708024512/https://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article3602991.ece |archive-date=8 July 2012| accessdate=11 May 2019 | author=Sushanta Talukdar | location=Guwahati | work=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref>
# [[Assam Valley Literary Award]], (Asom Upotyoka Sahitya Bota) 2000 awarded by Megor Sikhya Nyash<ref name="thehindu"/>

==See also==
*[[Jayanta Mahapatra]]
*[[Jyoti Prasad Agarwala]]
*[[Vegunta Mohan Prasad]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category}}
* [http://hirenbhattacharyya.blogspot.in/ Blogger page of the Author]
* [http://www.xophura.net/tag/hiren-bhattacharyya His Poems at Xofura]
* Oxom Yearbook 2003, Xoraaighaat Prokaaxon, December 2003
* http://www.poetrytranslation.org/poets/hiren-bhattacharjya
; Audio links
* [https://soundcloud.com/bishnusaikia123/sets/hiren-bhattacharyyas-poem-in/ Some of his poems in audio format] sung by [[Pulok Benarjee]]
; Book Search
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA394&lpg=PA394&dq=Hiren+Bhat+assam&source=bl&ots=mVC1YyxQu2&sig=IE-d6HpdOBi5vXSOOLYy3eu20Jg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tgbBT4q1LoWrrAf84pHbCQ&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Hiren%20Bhat%20assam&f=false Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo - Google Books Result]

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[[Category:1932 births]]
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[[Category:Assamese-language poets]]
[[Category:People from Jorhat district]]
[[Category:Poets from Assam]]
[[Category:Deaths from lung disease]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Assam Valley Literary Award]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]

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