Manoj Kumar Goswami (b. 1962): Manoj Kumar Goswami is one of the foremost contemporary writers of Assam. Emerging as a young writer in the 1980s when the valley was in the doldrums due to a prolonged agitation against illegal immigrants, he immediately caught attention with his analytical insight into the characters he portrayed, the cinematic language he used, and the diverse subjects he chose. He won the Katha Award for Creative Fiction in 1994, and the Sanskriti Award for Literature in 1996. Goswami started his career as a journalist, and currently he is the editor-in-chief of the Assamese daily Amar Asom and DY 365, a satellite television channel in North East India.