Sananta Tanty
Sananta Tanty (, (born 4 November 1952) is an eminent Indian Assamese poet whose work is important in Assamese literature. Tanty was born to an Odia family in Kalinagar Tea Estate. Tanty completed his secondary education at a Bengali-medium school but continued his literary works in the mainland Assamese language. Tanty has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the 2018 Sahitya Akademi Award for "Kailoir Dinto Amar Hobo" (Tomorrow Will be Ours), a collection of his poems.

According to the website Asymptote, Tanty is "a chronicler of the times and an advocate for the downtrodden" and "a poet of change and of unbridled optimism".
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Assam
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Q2308254
Assamese literature
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Odia
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Kalinagar Tea Estate
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Assamese
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Sahitya Akademi Award
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Q25205381
Asymptote
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Q96419306
Sananta Tanty
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4 November 1952
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2018-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2018
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date of birth