Chandranath Mishra Amar (2 March 1925^[1][2] – 1 April 2021)^[3] was a Maithili writer and poet. He was the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi award for his 1982 work Maithili Patrakaritak Itahas.^[4] He also won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Fellowship for the year 2010.^[5]

Honours and awards

• Founder Secretary, Navratna Gosthi, Darbhanga (1943)
• General Secretary, All India Maithili Sahitya Parishad (1957)
• Language Director and Actor in First Maithili film Kanyadan directed by Phani Majumdar (1964)
• Member, Senate, KSDS University, Darbhanga (1982)
• Sahitya Akademi Award for Maithili Patrakaritak Itihas (1983)
• Member, Maithili Language Advisory Board, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (1983)
• Member, Executive Committee, Maithili Academy Patna (1988)
• Member, Programme Advisory Committee, All India Radio, Darbhanga (1993)
• Sahitya Akademi Translation Award for Parashuramak Bichhal Berayal Katha (1998)
• Convenor, Maithili Advisory Board Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (2003)
• Sahitya Akademi Fellowship (2010)

List of works

Poetry

• Gudgudi (1946)
• Yugachakra (1952)
• Ritupriya (1963)
• Unta Pal (1972)
• Asha-Disha (1975)
• Thahi-Pathahi (2001)

Novel, Short-Story & Criticism

• Veer Kanya (1950)
• Bidagari (1963)
• Jasamadhi (1972)
• M. M. Muralidhar Jha (1980)
• Kashikant Mishra 'Madhup'(1994)
• Dinanath Pathak Bandhu (1994)
• Zero Power (2006)

One-Act Play

• Samadhan (1995)
• Khajwa Topi (2005)

Memoir

• Kanyadan Filmak: Nepathya Katha (2003)

Miscellaneous

• Trifla (1948)
• Maithili Patrikaritak Itihas (1981)
• Swatantra Swar (1994)
• Parashuramak Bichhal Berayal Katha (1995)
• Maithili Sahitya Parishadak Itihas (1995)
• Maithili Mahasabhak Itihas (1995)

Translation

• Vidyapati Sukti Taranginee
• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
• H. N. Apte

Editing

• Lok Sahitya (Research Papers)(2006)
• Maithili Ragmanch (Research Papers)(2007)
• Jagle Rahbai (Poetry) (2007)
• Labani Parak Deep (Poetry)
• Sandhi Samas (Short Story)
• Katha Kislay (2007)