Literature
- Ambika Charan Choudhury, litterateur
- Amulya Barua, Revolutionary Poet
- Anandaram Dhekial Phukan, pioneer of Assamese literature
- Banikanta Kakati, litterateur
- Bhabananda Deka, Littérateur, Economist, Poet
- Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, writer and first Assamese to win Jnanpith Award
- Dimbeswar Neog (1899–1967) Indradhedu Poet Assamese literature
- Hem Barua, poet
- Hemchandra Barua, grammarian, lexicographer
- Hiren Bhattacharyya, poet
- Homen Borgohain littérateur
- Indira Goswami, littérateur and Jnanpith Award winner
- Krishna Kanta Handique
- Lakshminath Bezbaruah, father of modern Assamese literature
- Nilmani Phookan, (born 1933) poet
- Parvati Prasad Baruva, poet, lyricist
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“Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time—this one, for instance—as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)