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Assamese writer Indira Goswami dead
Tuesday November 29, 2011 11:19:56 AM,
IANS
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Guwahati: Noted Assamese writer Indira Goswami died
early Tuesday at a hospital in this city after prolonged illness.
She was 69.
Doctors said she died of multiple organ failure at 7.45 a.m. at
the Gauhati Medical College Hospital.
Known by her pen name, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, she had been a
teacher at the Department of Modern Indian Languages at Delhi
University.
Winner of India's highest literary award Jnanpith, Goswami acted
as a facilitator to broker peace between the outlawed United
Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and New Delhi. But she gave it up
in 2005.
"Her death has created a void in the literary scene in India,"
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said.
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