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List Of Odia Writers
This is a list of notable Odia language writers from Odisha, India from the 8th century onward. Charyagiti Era of Buddhist poets (7th - 8th Century A.D ) * Sarahapada Age of Sarala Yuga (15th Century A.D) *Sarala Das (1465 ? ) Panchasakha Era (15th - 16th Century A.D) * Atibadi Jagannath Das (c. 1491-1550) * Achyutananda Das * Balaram Das *Ananta Das * Jasobanta Das Age of Upendra Bhanja * Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja (C. 1688-1740) * Kavisurya Baladev Rath (c. 1789 – 1845) Age of Radhanath * Fakir Mohan Senapati * Gangadhar Meher * Radhanath Ray * Madhusudan Rao * Nanda Kishore Bal * Reba Ray Post Colonial Age * Gangadhar Meher * Sachidananda Routray * Brajanath Rath * Binod Chandra Nayak *Bira kishor Das *Banchhanidhi Mohanty *Mayadhar Mansingh *Manorama Mohapatra Poetry * Brajanath Rath * Ramakanta Rath * Sitakanta Mohapatra * Haraprasad Das * Pratibha Satpathy Novelists *Gopinath Mohanty *Surendra Mohanty *Manoj Das *Santanu Kumar Acharya *Pratibha Ray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odia Language
Odia (, ISO: , ; formerly rendered Oriya ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the official language in Odisha (formerly rendered Orissa), where native speakers make up 82% of the population, and it is also spoken in parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Odia is one of the many official languages of India; it is the official language of Odisha and the second official language of Jharkhand. The language is also spoken by a sizeable population of 700,000 people in Chhattisgarh. Odia is the sixth Indian language to be designated a classical language, on the basis of having a long literary history and not having borrowed extensively from other languages. The earliest known inscription in Odia dates back to the 10th century CE. History Odia is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Aryan language family. It descends from Odra Prakrit, which evolved from Magadhi Prakrit, which was spoken in east Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reba Ray
Reba Ray (1876 – 1957) was an Indian Odia poet educationist and administrator. Best known as one of the earliest Odia women writers, she was also founder of Model Girls' School, Cuttack. Her short story ''Sanyasi'' is considered earliest modern Odia short story by a woman writer. She was niece of renowned Odia poet Madhusudan Rao Madhusudan Rao (19 January 1853 – 28 December 1912) was an Odia poet and writer from India. He was known as ''Bhaktakabi''. His most well known work is the ''Chhabila Madhu Barnabodha''. Life He was born on 19 January 1853 in the district o .... Personal life She was born on 1857. Many of her early life details are not known. She was married to well known writer Sadhu Charan Ray. Career She was one of the pioneers for women's education. She established Model Girls' School at Cuttack in 1906. It had provision for teaching music and sewing. She founded a woman's magazine ''Asha'' in 1892. She also founded Odisha's first children's magazine '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pratibha Ray
Pratibha Ray (born 21 January 1944) is an Indian academic and writer of Odia-language novels and stories. For her contribution to the Indian literature, Ray received the Jnanpith Award in 2011. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2022. Life and career She was born on 21 January 1943, at Alabol, a remote village in the Balikuda area of Jagatsinghpur district formerly part of Cuttack district of Odisha state. She was the first woman to win the Moortidevi Award in 1991. Her first novel ''Barsha Basanta Baishakha'' (1974) was a best seller. Her search for a "social order based on equality, love, peace and integration", continues, since she first penned at the age of nine. When she wrote for a social order, based on equality without class, caste, religion or sex discriminations, some of her critics branded her as a communist, and some as feminist. But she says: "I am a humanist. Men and women have been created differently for the healthy functioning of society. The specialities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santanu Kumar Acharya
Santanu Kumar Acharya (born 1933) is a National Sahitya Academy Award-winning Indian writer. Life Acharya, born in 1933 in Kolkata, comes from the village Siddheswar Pur of the Cuttack district Odisha. He served the Government of Odisha as a college teacher for 34 years, from 1958 to 1992. He retired as the Registrar of Utkal University. Selected works Acharya has written 16 novels, 23 short story collections comprising about 400 stories, and 11 children's books. Novels * ''Nara-Kinnara'', 1962 (The Man and the Sub Humans) * ''Shatabdira Nachiketa'', 1965 (The Nachiketas of the Century) * ''Tinoti Ratira Sakala'', 1969 (The mornings of three dark nights) * ''Dakshinabarta'', 1973 (The turning point) * ''Jatrara Prathama Pada'', 1976 (The First Leg of the Journey) * ''Anya Eka Sakaala Anya Eka Bharat'', 1977 (It is another morning and it is another India) * ''Shakuntala'', 1980 (a novel on the Naxallite movements) * ''Mantrinka Share'', 1988 (The Minister's Share) * ''Dharitri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manoj Das
Manoj Das (27 February 1934 – 27 April 2021) was an Indian author who wrote in Odia and English. In 2000, Manoj Das was awarded the Saraswati Samman. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2001, the fourth-highest Civilian Award in India, Padma Bhusan in 2020, and the third-highest Civilian Award in India for his contribution to the field of ''Literature & Education.'' Kendra Sahitya Akademi has bestowed its highest award (also India's highest literary award) i.e Sahitya Akademi Award Fellowship. In 1971, his research in the archives of London and Edinburgh brought to light some of the little-known facts of India's freedom struggle in the first decade of the twentieth century led by Sri Aurobindo for which he received the first Sri Aurobindo Puraskar (Kolkata). His deeper quest led him to mysticism and he was an inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry since 1963 where he taught English Literature and the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo at the Sri Aurobindo International Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surendra Mohanty
Surendra Mohanty (21 June 1922- 21 December 1990) born in Odisha was an Indian author who wrote in Odia. He was the recipient of the Central Sahitya Academy Award for his novel ''Nilashaila''. Career He was the president of Odisha Sahitya Academy from 1981 to 1987. He was also the first editor, and later chief editor for the newspaper ''The Sambad''. He is a writer of short stories, novels, travelogues, criticism and biographies. He wrote around 50 books belonging to different genres. His well-known books are ''Mahanagarira Ratri'' (The Night of the Metropolis), ''Maralara Mrutyu'' (The Death of a Swan), ''Andha Diganta'' (The Dark Horizon), and ''Mahanirvana'' (The Final Departure). ''Yadubamsa O Anyaanya Galpa'' (The Yadubamsa and other stories), ''Rajadhani O Anyaanya Galpa'' (The Capital and other stories), ''Krushnachuda'' (The Gulmohur) and ''Ruti O Chandra'' (The Bread and The Moon) are his famous short stories. Apart from being a litterateur, he was also active in po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopinath Mohanty
Gopinath Mohanty (1914–1991), winner of the Jnanpith award, and the first winner of the National Sahitya Akademi Award in 1955 – for his novel, ''Amrutara Santana'' – was a prolific Odia writer of the mid-twentieth century. Satya Prakash Mohanty, professor of English, Cornell University says: "In my opinion, Gopinath Mohanty is the most important Indian novelist in the second half of the twentieth century." Career Mohanty joined the Odisha Administrative Service in 1938 and retired in 1969. He was invited by Professor Prabhat Nalini Das, then head of the English department at Utkal University as University Grants Commission, UGC Distinguished Visiting Professor and writer-in-residence for two years at the English department, Utkal University, in the late 1970s. In 1986, he joined San Jose State University in the United States as an adjunct professor of Social Sciences. He died at San Jose, California on 20 August 1991. Novels Gopinath's first novel, ''Mana Gahirar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pratibha Satpathy
Pratibha Satpathy (born: 27 November 1945) is a poet of Odia literature. She has been recognised as one of the leading poets of the country and has been honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award. Biography She has been writing poetry in Odia for more than forty years. She is editor of poetry magazine ''Udbhasa'' which is published quarterly. Previously she was the editor of the Odia magazine ''Istahaar'' for 25 years. Satpathy has also translated a number of famous English literary works by writers such as Pearl S. Buck into Odia language. Many of her books in Odia have been translated into Hindi Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ... by herself. She has won several awards. Major works ;Poetry collections * Ama Kavita (1962) * Asta Janhara Elegy (1969) * Grasta Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haraprasad Das
Haraprasad Das (born 15 January 1946), is an Odia language poet, essayist and columnist. Das, has twelve works of poetry, four of prose, three translations and one piece of fiction to his credit. Haraprasad, is a retired civil servant. He has served various UN bodies as an expert. Awards He is a recipient of numerous awards and recognitions including * Kalinga Literary Award, 2017, Kalinga Literary Festival * Moortidevi Award, 2013 * Gangadhar Meher Award, 2008 * Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ..., 1999 * Sarala Award, 2008 References 1945 births Living people Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Odia Recipients of the Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award Recipients of the Gangadhar National Award Poets from Odisha Od ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitakanta Mohapatra
Sitakant Mahapatra (born 17 September 1937) is an Indian poet and literary critic in Odia as well as English. He served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from 1961 until he retired in 1995, and has held ''ex officio'' posts such as the Chairman of National Book Trust, New Delhi since then. He has published over 15 poetry collection, 5 essay collections, a travelogue, over 30 contemplative works, apart from numerous translations. His poetry collection has been published in several Indian languages. His notable works are, ''Sabdar Akash'' (1971) (The Sky of Words), ''Samudra'' (1977) and ''Anek Sharat'' (1981). He was awarded the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award in Odia for his poetry collection, ''Sabdara Akasha'' (The Sky of Words). He was awarded the Jnanpith Award in 1993 "for outstanding contribution to Indian literature" and in its citation the Bharatiya Jnanpith noted, "Deeply steeped in western literature his pen has the rare rapturous fragrance of native soil"; he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramakanta Rath
Ramakanta Rath (born 13 December 1934) is one of the most renowned modernist poets in the Odia literature. Heavily influenced by the poets such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Rath experimented greatly with form and style. The quest for the mystical, the riddles of life and death, the inner solitude of individual selves, and subservience to material needs and carnal desires are among this philosopher-poet's favorite themes. His poetry betrays a sense of pessimism along with counter-aesthetics, and he steadfastly refuses to put on the garb of a preacher of goodness and absolute beauty. His poetry is full of melancholy and laments the inevitability of death and the resultant feeling of futility. The poetic expressions found in his creations carry a distinct sign of symbolic annotations to spiritual and metaphysical contents of life. Often transcending beyond ordinary human capabilities, the poet reaches the higher territories of sharp intellectualism. The contents have varied from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manorama Mohapatra
Manorama Mohapatra (10 June 1934 – 18 September 2021) was an Indian writer, poet, and editor, working primarily in the Odia language. She wrote forty books consisting of novels and poetry, and edited an Odia newspaper, ''The Samaj.'' She was the recipient of several literary awards, including Odisha state's highest literary honor, the Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award in 1984. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Odisha State Sahitya Akademi, a literary organization for the state of Odisha. Life Mohapatra was born in 1934 in Odisha, India. Her father, Dr Radhanath Rath was the editor of an Odia-language daily newspaper, ''The Samaj''. Her undergraduate education was in economics, at Ravenshaw University in Odisha. She briefly taught economics. She died on 18 September 2021, and her funeral was performed with state honors. Career Mohapatra began her career as a columnist for the daily newspaper ''The Samaj'', which was edited by her father, writing on politics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
