Nilutpal Baruah was born in 1982 and published his first book, Bandhya Prahoror Kobita, in 1999. He served as an executive editor for the newspaper Axomiya Natyosinta, produced seven documentary films about the theater and folk culture in Assam, and has been involved with Assamese music as a lyricist for a decade.
Baruah was awarded the Mamoni Roisom Goswami Memorial Award for his novel Indraprasthat Priyodarshini and the Kala Guru Bishnu Prasad Rabha Award and Sahitya Akademi Bota for his Sukracharjya Rabha, Jatra Aru Matra, which was translated into English as Sal Soul Sukracharjya. He is working on a collection of short stories and a novel.
