Arup kumar dutta biography of michael

Indian writer and journalist (born 1946)

Arup Kumar Datta is an Indian writer and Journalist from Guwahati, Assam.

Arup kumar dutta biography of michael

He has written 18 books for adults and 17 adventure novels for young people . In 2014 he was awarded the Life Time Achievement Honour by Association of Writers and illustrators for Children, New Delhi, the Indian chapter of the International Board of Books for Young People.^[1] He has also won numerous awards including the Shankar's Award in 1979, conferred to mark The International Year of the Child.^[2] He has been awarded the civilian award Padma Shri by Government of India in 2018.^[3]

Personal life

Arup Kumar Datta was born on 2 July 1946 to Girish and Indira Dutta.

He spent his early life in Jorhat, in the tea-growing Indian state of Assam. At the age of 8, he was admitted to The Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh, from where he passed his Senior Cambridge Examination in 1962.

After school, Dutta jo