Honeycomb
The book is called Honeycomb, and the record attached to it is specific: youngest author in India, as recognised by the India Book of Records, at the age of four.
The India Book of Records is a national record register that documents Indian achievements across a very wide range of categories, and it operates by accepting and verifying submitted claims. A record from it is a documented adjudication rather than an informal press description, which distinguishes it from the many youngest-author claims that rest only on a newspaper's phrasing.
A writer who also paints
Beyond the book, the reporting records that he writes poems and paints. For a four-year-old, that combination is the relevant context: the book is one output of a child who was already producing work in several forms.
What the coverage does not do is describe the book's contents, its length, or how it came to be published. Those are real gaps. A reader wanting to know what a four-year-old's book actually consists of will not find the answer in the sources used here.
North Lakhimpur, and the household
He is from North Lakhimpur, a town in upper Assam, and was a pupil at St Mary's School there. He was being raised by his grandfather, Purno Kanta Gogoi, a retired bank officer, while his parents were in Mizoram.
That detail was published at the time and is recorded here because it is part of the documented story rather than because it explains anything. It does place the record outside the metropolitan circuits where most Indian child-prodigy stories originate: a small town in the north-east, a school, and a grandparent.
Where Ayan Gogoi Gohain is now
The reporting used here dates from June 2018. Nothing in the sources used for this page describes what he has done since — further books, schooling, or anything else.
He was four then and is a child now, which is the reason this page stops here and does not attempt to locate him. The published record is a book, a record certificate and a set of family circumstances reported at the time, and that is where it properly ends.
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Passer le test de QI →Why youngest-author records keep moving
Records for the youngest published author have fallen steadily for a straightforward reason: publication has become cheap. When printing a book required a publisher's commitment, the age floor was set by what a publisher would take on. Short-run and self-publishing removed that filter, and the binding constraint became the child's ability to produce text at all.
That is why such records now change hands frequently and why the careful ones specify a registering body. A claim verified by a named record organisation, as this one was by the India Book of Records, states exactly what has been checked — that a book exists, that a named child wrote it, and that the child was younger than any previous claimant on that register.
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| Personne | Pays | Étape | Âge / Donnée |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlDhabi Rashed AlMheiri | Émirats arabes unis | À cinq jours de son huitième anniversaire, elle a publié dans deux langues | Âge 0 |
| Ayan Gogoi Gohain | Inde | Nommé plus jeune auteur de l'Inde à quatre ans, pour 'Honeycomb' | Âge 4 |
| Bryan Patrick | États-Unis | Il l'a tapé lui-même en un mois, et en avril, 1 015 exemplaires avaient été vendus | Âge 4 |
| AlMaha Rashed AlMheiri | Émirats arabes unis | Deux livres sur l'environnement, plus de mille exemplaires en une journée, et | Âge 4 |
| Dana Al Balooshi | Émirats arabes unis | Publication de '13 Amazing Women of Arabia' à 12 ans | Âge 12 |
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Named India's youngest author by the India Book of Records at four, for 'Honeycomb' (Khaleej Times, June 2018)
- From North Lakhimpur, Assam; pupil at St Mary's School
- Raised by his grandfather, Purno Kanta Gogoi, a retired bank officer, with his parents in Mizoram; also writes poems and paints
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- No exact date of birth published
- No description of the book's contents, length or publisher in these sources
- No reporting found on him after June 2018
Questions people ask about Ayan Gogoi Gohain
What book did Ayan Gogoi Gohain write?
Honeycomb, published in 2018 when he was four.
Who recognised the record?
The India Book of Records, which named him India's youngest author.
How old is Ayan Gogoi Gohain?
This record gives his birth year as 2014, which made him four at the time of the 2018 reporting. No exact date of birth appears in the sources used here.
Where is he from?
North Lakhimpur in Assam, where he was a pupil at St Mary's School.
Who raised him?
The reporting states that he was being raised by his grandfather, Purno Kanta Gogoi, a retired bank officer, while his parents were in Mizoram.
What is the book about?
The sources used here do not describe the book's contents or length. They record the title, the age and the recognition.
Where is Ayan Gogoi Gohain now?
No source used here reports anything about him after June 2018. He is still a child, and this page does not go beyond the published record.
Is Ayan Gogoi Gohain on Wikipedia?
No Wikipedia article on him was found. The record here rests on the Khaleej Times report of the India Book of Records recognition.
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Sources
- 4-year-old kid is youngest author — Khaleej Times (via PressReader), 2018-06-06
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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