Medini Choudhury

Medini Mohan Choudhury (31 March 1928 Template:Endash 13 February 2003), known by his pen name as Medini Choudhury, was an Assamese novelist, short story writer, columnist, critic and a retired civil services officer. He wrote thirty books in Assamese language and two books in English, including Ananya Prantor, a novel which is recognized one of the prominent writings in Assamese literature.

He also worked at literary magazines and newspapers such as Asomiya, a weekly newspaper, Dainik Santidoot and Samakaal. He worked as an editor for Sutradhar magazine, and primarily used to wrote stort stories, columns and essays for newspapers and magazines.

Biography

He was born on 31 March 1928 in Goreswar town of Kamrup district, Assam. He graduated in 1949 from the Cotton College (now Cotton University). He had three daughters and four sons. Prior to joining civil services, he worked as a journalist. Later in 1956, he left journalism and started working as a government officer due to personal financial crisis. He also wrote a book titled Luit, Barak aru Islam that covers contribution of the Muslims to the Assam Movement.

Publications

Key

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Remarks denote a short description of the work where available.

#	Title	Year	Type/Credited as	Remarks	Template:Abbr
1	Anonyo Prantor (Unique Peripheries)	1975	Novel	It was the first novel he wrote
2	Banduka Behar	1976	Novel	Template:N/a
3	Taat Nodi Nachil (No River There)	Template:N/a	Novel	Template:N/a
4	Pherengadao	Template:N/a	Novel	Template:N/a
5	Aranya Aadim (Forests Primitive)	Template:N/a	Novel	Template:N/a
6	Bipanna Samay (Endangered Hours)	Template:N/a	Novel	The novel was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999
7	Ferengadao	Template:N/a	Book	Template:N/a
8	Mahapurush Madhavdev	Template:N/a	Novel	Template:N/a
9	Jadugharar Kirtimukh	Template:N/a	Novel	Template:N/a
10	Nibandhita Anubhav	Template:N/a	Novel	Template:N/a
11	Luit, Barak aru Islam	Template:N/a	Book	Covers contribution to the Muslims to the Assam Agitation
12	Yangjoo Nadir Paar	Template:N/a	Novel	Template:N/a
13	Kholakotir Taal	Template:N/a	Book	Template:N/a
14	Bipanna Xamay	Template:N/a	Book	Template:N/a
15	Bodo Dimasa of Assam	Template:N/a	Book	Template:N/a
16	Tribes of Assam Plains	Template:N/a	Book	Template:N/a
17	Making a Leader	Template:N/a	Book	Template:N/a
18	Xihote Kewal	Template:N/a	Short story	Template:N/a

Awards and accordion

Year	Nominated work	Award	Category	Result	Template:Abbr
1997	In recognition of his contribution to the Assam literature	Publication Board Assam Literary Award	Literature	rowspan="3"Template:Won
1999	Bipponna Samay	Sahitya Akademi Award	Literature
2002	Template:N/a	A state level award by the Government of Assam	Culture

Death

Choudhury was suffering from medical complications, and was admitted to a hospital for medical treatment. He was later admitted to a medical collage in Chennai where he died of myocardial infarction on 13 February 2003. He was cremated at Nabagraha crematorium in Assam.