Noted Assamese litterateur and Padma Shri awardee Lakshmi Nandan Bora passed away at a private hospital in Guwahati on Thursday. He was 91.
Suffering from ailments associated with old age, he was admitted to the hospital more than a week ago after he tested positive for COVID-19.
Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mourned the death of the writer whose novel
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“His death has left a void in the Assamese literary world,” former Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said.
Another of his novels, Kayakalpa , won him the Saraswati Samman in 2008.
Mr. Bora was the first person to be awarded a doctoral degree in meteorology by the Andhra University and he had served as a visiting professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University at Mainz in Germany.
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He also served as the president of the prestigious Assam Sahitya Sabha (1996-97) and was the chairman of the Assam Pollution Control Board from 1997-2003.
He edited Goriyoshi , an Assamese monthly literary magazine, too.