WordSmith Publishers

Name: Rupanjali Baruah

Educational Qualification
MA (English) from Gauhati University, Assam

Present Occupation
Freelance writer, poet, artist, art critic, translator having published her poems, short stories and articles in leading newspapers and journals both local & national namely Indian literature, Chandrabhaga, Poet, Quest, Replica, New Frontiers, The Telegraph, The Sentinel and Art & Deal and many others. She has translated several eminent poems & short stories from Assamese into English & vice versa, they include poems of Sahitya Akademi award winning poet Hiren Bhattachaya, Nilim Kumar, Atanu Bhattacharya and short stories of several eminent Assamese writers namely Mousumi Kandali, Atanu Bhattacharya, Kula Saikia,, Dr. Apurba Saikia Arupa Kalita Patangia & Pankaj Thakur as well 6 English short stories of Jayanta Mahaptra have been translated & published in local newspapers in Assamese.

Rupanjali Baruah has contributed her writings on the art scene and artists of Assam for the last seven years which has given the attention to the works of eminent artists of Assam namely Sobha Brahma, Neel Pawan Baruah, Pulak Gogoi , Kishor Kumar Das and many others. She has writeen two significant catalogues on the art work of Assam artists which have been showcased in Bangalore, Johannesburg & London. She is currently writing a book on 120 artists of Assam and their art work which would be the first documented work of this stature to be published from Assam.

Rupanjali Baruah’s own abstract art work has been recently reviewed and appreciated by Sandhya Boredewekar in Art India, a leading national art journal of India in September 2006.

A self- taught artist, Rupanjali Baruah works in the following fields- abstract landscapes on matchboxes, newspaper and printed paper using both oil and acrylic, oil on canvas and mixed media. Her solo exhibitions held in Jan 2004 at Gallery Artists’ Guild, Guwahati, at Don Bosco Institue Guwahati & Gymkhana Club Guwahati in 2006 were titled Windows & Beyond Windows respectively through which different perspectives of the abstract concepts and visions were communicated together with the recitation of her own poems by her to the accompaniment of music on the piano.

Her first book of English poems titled “All Things Passing” and first book of English short stories “Amrita & other stories” were published by P.Lal, Writers’ Workshop, Kolkata in 2005. These two books are included in Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2006.published by Sage Publication.

Rupanjali Baruah is currently the editor of Wordsmith Publishers, Guwahati which recently published a national level English literary journal named ‘SABD’ which showcases the art, literature & culture of Assam & the Northeast together with those from the rest of India. The first issue of ‘SABD’ (Autumn) was released by Preity Gill senior Editor Zubaan on 5 th Dec 2006.The second issue (Spring) was released in June 2007. The Third issue (Winter) was released by Ratan Thiyam in April 2008.

The first issue "SABD" (Autumn) of Vol II will be ready by October 2008.

Rupanjali Baruah’s first English novel “The Road Alone” is ready to be published this year.

Rupanjali Baruah lives in Guwahati, Assam.