He was first ever recipient of the Jnanpith Award given to an Bengali/Assamese writer, in the year 1979 for his novel Mrityunjay (Immortal).
Mrityunjay: The Jnanpith Award-winning 1979 Assamese novel by Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
Mrityunjay Kumar Singh, also known as MK Singh, was born in 1961 in Sonbarsa, Bihar.