Kherwal Soren (born 9 December 1957) or Kalipada Soren is a Santhali playwright, author and editor.

Career

Kherwal Soren, born as Kalipada Soren in 1957 at Raghunathpur near

Jhargram Jhargram is a city and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Jhargram district. It is a popular tourist destination known for its forests, ancient temples and royal palaces. Geography Location Jhargr ...

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, graduated from

Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, also known as Kapgari College, is an undergraduate education, undergraduate, coeducational college situated in Kapgari, Jhargram district, Jhargram, West Bengal. It was established in 1964. The college is under Vi ...

and passed M.A in political science from

Rabindra Bharati University Rabindra Bharati University is a public research university in Kolkata, India. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of West Bengal in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet Rabindranath Tagore. ...

. He regularly edits a literary magazine ''Kherwal Jaher''. Soren has written 31 plays and a number of stories and poems in the

Santhali language Santali (, Ol Chiki: ), Bengali: , Odia: , Devanagari: , also known as Santal, is the most widely spoken language of the Munda subfamily of the Austroasiatic languages, related to Ho and Mundari, spoken mainly in the Indian states of Assa ...

. He translated ''Anubhab'', a

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

novel of

Dibyendu Palit Dibyendu Palit ( bn, দিব্যেন্দু পালিত; 5 March 1939 – 3 January 2019) was an Indian writer of Bengali poems, novels, and short stories. His first story ''Chandapatan'' was published in 1955 in the Sunday edition ...

into Santhali. He received the Sarada Prasad Kisku award for his literary contribution. He retired from State Bank of India. In 2007, Soren was awarded the

Sahitya Akademi The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...

for his play ''Chet Re Cikayana''. He was conferred the

Padma Shri Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conf ...

award in 2022.

References

Living people 1957 births Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Santali Santali people Santali writers Adivasi writers People from Jhargram district Writers from West Bengal Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education Rabindra Bharati University alumni Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation {{India-writer-stub