Harekrishna Deka

Harekrishna Deka started writing poems and short stories in his student days, and continued this as a hobby during his police career.

He has won the following awards:

• 1987 - Sahitya Akademi Award for his poem Ann Ejan^[2]
• 1995 - Katha Award for his short story Bandiyar (Prisoner)^[3][4]
• 2010 - Assam Valley Literary Award^[3]

After retiring from the police service, Deka briefly edited the English daily The Sentinel before editing the Assamese literary monthly Gariyasi.^[3]

• Swarabor (Voices) 1972
• Ratir Sobhajatra (Procession by Night) 1978
• Aan Ejan (Another One), 1986, also translated to Bengali and Oriya
• Kabita 1960-1980 (Poems 1960-1980), 2002
• Bhalpoar Babe Exar (A Word for Love), 2003
• Xanmihali Barnamala (Mixed Alphabets), 2010
• Sea-Scare (poems translated to English), 2001

• Prakritik aru Anyanya (The Natural and other stories), 1900
• Madhusudanar Dolong (Madhusudan's Bridge), 1992
• Bandiyar (Captive), 1996, Also translated to Oriya
• Post-modern athaba Galpa (Post-modern or Short Story), 2001
• Mrityudanda (Death Sentence), 2006
• Galpa aru Kalpa (Story and Fiction), 2009

• Adhunikatavad aru Anyanya Prabandha (Modernism and other essays), 1998
• Beekson aru Xandhan (Insight and Investigation), 2000
• Dristi aru Sristi (Look and Creation), 2006
• Nilamani Phukan: Kabi aru Kabita (Nilamani Phukan: the poet and his poems), 2010

• Agantuk (Strangers), 2008

• Tarun Prajanmar Kabita (Poetry of the Young Generation), 2005

• Pratixarita Rashmi (Refracted Light). Translation of poems of Saint John Perse, Yanis Ritsos, Vasco Popa and Jaroslav Seifert, 1992

• Prabrajan aru Anupravex (Immigration and Infiltration), 2010
• Xarbabhoumatva, Xantraxvad aru Nagarik Xamaj (Sovereignty, Terrorism and Civil Society), 2010

• List of Indian poets
• Assamese literature
• History of Assamese literature
• List of Assamese-language poets
• North-East India
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