Chandranath Mishra Amar

Indian writer (1925–2021)

Chandranath Mishra Amar (2 March 1925^[1]^[2] – 1 April 2021)^[3] was a Maithili writer and poet. He was the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi award for his 1982 work Maithili Patrakaritak Itahas.^[4] He also won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for the year 2010.^[5]

Honours and awards

Founder Secretary, Navratna Gosthi, Darbhanga (1943)
General Secretary, All India Maithili Sahitya Parishad (1957)
Language Director and Actor in First Maithili film Kanyadan directed by Phani Majumdar (1964)
Member, Senate, KSDS University, Darbhanga (1982)
Sahitya Akademi Award for Maithili Patrakaritak Itihas (1983)
Member, Maithili Language Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (1983)
Member, Executive Committee, Maithili Academy Patna (1988)
Member, Programme Advisory Committee, All India Radio, Darbhanga (1993)
Sahitya Akademi Translation Award for Parashuramak Bichhal Berayal Katha (1998)
Convenor, Maithili Advisory Board Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (2003)
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship (2010)

List of works

Poetry

Gudgudi (1946)
Yugachakra (1952)
Ritupriya (1963)
Unta Pal (1972)
Asha-Disha (1975)
Thahi-Pathahi (2001)

Novel, Short-Story & Criticism

Veer Kanya (1950)
Bidagari (1963)
Jasamadhi (1972)
M. M. Muralidhar Jha (1980)
Kashikant Mishra 'Madhup'(1994)
Dinanath Pathak Bandhu (1994)
Zero Power (2006)

One-Act Play

Samadhan (1995)
Khajwa Topi (2005)

Memoir

Kanyadan Filmak: Nepathya Katha (2003)

Miscellaneous

Trifla (1948)
Maithili Patrikaritak Itihas (1981)
Swatantra Swar (1994)
Parashuramak Bichhal Berayal Katha (1995)
Maithili Sahitya Parishadak Itihas (1995)
Maithili Mahasabhak Itihas (1995)

Translation

Vidyapati Sukti Taranginee
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
H. N. Apte

Editing

Lok Sahitya (Research Papers)(2006)
Maithili Ragmanch (Research Papers)(2007)
Jagle Rahbai (Poetry) (2007)
Labani Parak Deep (Poetry)
Sandhi Samas (Short Story)
Katha Kislay (2007)

References

^ Dutt, Kartik Chandra (1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. ISBN 9788126008735.
^ "VerbalArt: A Global Journal Devoted to Poets & Poetry".
^ "बिहार: प्रसिद्ध साहित्यकार पंडित चंद्रनाथ मिश्र अमर का निधन, मिथलांचल में शोक की लहर". News18 India. 2 April 2021.
^ "Profile of Chandranath Mishra 'Amar'". Archived from the original on 3 December 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
^ "Sahitya Akademi Fellowship Winners". Sahitya Akademi. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2012.