Suchibrata Roychoudhury | |
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শুচিব্রতা ৰায়চৌধুৰী | |
| Born | 1 September 1929 Guwahati, Assam, India |
| Died | 2 December 2009 (aged 78) Guwahati, Assam, India |
| Occupations | Government servant, writer, poet |
| Years active | 1942–2003 |
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| Awards | Sahitya Akademi Award |
Suchibrata Roychoudhury (Assamese: শুচিব্রতা ৰায়চৌধুৰী; 1 September 1931 – 2 December 2009; sometimes spelled Suchibrata Raichoudhury) was an Assamese litterateur and poet, and the first female Judicial Magistrate of Assam as an Assam Civil Services officer. She received the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 2001 for translating Suvira Jaiswal's The Origin and Development of Vaishnavism in India.
Suchibrata was born on 1 September 1931 in Panbazar, Guwahati to freedom activist and poet Ambikagiri Roychoudhury and Kaushalya Devi Ambikagiri. Suchibrata was the eldest of four siblings.
From an early age, she was engaged in writing songs, stories, poems and articles. In class fifth, she published her first hand-written magazine Bonti along with her friend Kamala Das. She wrote a poem "Sannyasi" in the magazine on Mahatma Gandhi. She started singing borgeet when she was in class fourth.
She began school at the Balika Primary School in Panbazaar, Guwahati. From class fourth onwards, she continued her high school studies at Panbazar Girls' High School and completed her matriculation in 1945. She also received the Pratibha Devi Award and Narayani Handique Award for Science in the same year.
In the year 1947, she completed her intermediate examination from Handique Girls' College. She graduated from the same college in 1949 and enrolled in Gauhati University. She also wrote plays for All India Radio. She started her career as a teacher in the Tarini Charan Girls' School in 1951.
Suchibrata set up institutions throughout her life, leading her to earn Dinabandhavi title ("friend of the poor").
By 1954, Suchibrata had joined the Assam Civil Service as a civil servant.
Suchibrata's literary works generally deal with themes of patriotism and social evils. Some of her literary works are:
Suchibrata translated many books and plays into Assamese.
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