{{Short description|Hindi poet & academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}
'''Anuj Lugun''' is an Indian poet and writer. His poetry espoused indigenous renaissance and intense rebellion against fascism and oppression. Anuj's activism for social justice earned him the title of Tribal Poet.
==Early life and career== Born into a Jharkhandi Mundari family to Ereneus Lugun & Jaymmila Lugun in Jaldega Pahantoli, district Simdega, Jharkhand, Anuj is the nephew of William Lugun, a prominent leader of the Jharkhand movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cub.ac.in/assets/pdf/anuj_lugun.pdf |title=आम –प रचय |publisher=Cub.ac.in |access-date=17 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121122335/http://cub.ac.in/assets/pdf/anuj_lugun.pdf |archive-date=21 January 2015 }}</ref>
==Work and service== Lugun is working as assistant professor in School of Languages and Literature at Central University of South Bihar (CUSB).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cub.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=205:anuj-lugun&catid=2&Itemid=194 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121122332/http://cub.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=205:anuj-lugun&catid=2&Itemid=194 |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 January 2015 |title=Anuj Lugun - Central University of Bihar - Cub.ac.in |work=Cub.ac.in |access-date=17 February 2015 }}</ref>
==Awards and recognition== * Sahitya Academy Yuva Puraskar 2019 for his long Hindi poem ''Bagh aur Sugna Munda ki Beti'' (''The Tiger and the Daughter of Sugna Munda'')<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://countercurrents.org/2019/07/poet-from-jharkhand-bags-sahitya-akademi-award-for-poem-with-universal-appeal|title=Poet from Jharkhand bags Sahitya Akademi award for poem with universal appeal|date=2019-07-19|website=Countercurrents|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-23}}</ref> * Anuj Lugun- won the prestigious Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Award in 2011 for the best poem in Hindi<ref>{{cite web|url=https://in.news.yahoo.com/hindi-stalwarts-praise-tribal-poet-000000197.html|title=Hindi stalwarts praise tribal poet|date=11 August 2011|work=Yahoo News India|access-date=17 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112214729/https://in.news.yahoo.com/hindi-stalwarts-praise-tribal-poet-000000197.html|archive-date=12 November 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lugun, Anuj}} Category:Munda people Category:Poets from Jharkhand Category:People from Simdega district Category:Indian male poets Category:1986 births Category:Living people Category:Adivasi writers Category:20th-century Indian poets Category:Banaras Hindu University alumni Category:Hindi-language writers