Arupa Kalita Patangia was born in 1956[1] and is an Indian novelist and short story writer and known for her fiction writing in Assamese.
In 2014, she received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for her short stories book named Mariam Austin Othoba Hira Barua.
[5] Her works touch upon Assamese history and culture, addressing the lives people from middle and lower income brackets,[6] and focus specifically on concerns of women, violence, and insurgency.
[7] She studied at Golaghat Mission Girls High School, and Debraj Roy College,[8] and completed her PhD from Gauhati University on Pearl S. Buck's women characters.
Even men have written about woman sensitively, and some immortal female characters in literature have been created by male writers.