An engineer by profession, Debendranath Acharya (1937-1981) was an Assamese litterateur and scholar. His novel Jangam posthumously received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1984. He also wrote three other noteworthy historical novels: Onyo Jug, Onyo Purux (1970), Kaalpurux (1976) and Raktarag (1982). He died at the young age of 44 as MD of the public sector undertaking Assam Gas Co. The entire literary repertoire of his published as well as unpublished works were complied in 2011 under the title ‘Rachana Samagrah’ and published by Jyoti Prakashan, Guwahati