Saumitra Saxena (

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: , born 1976) is a

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based poet of

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n origin. He is one of the widely read poets of

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language of present generation. His critically acclaimed first collection of poems in Hindi titled "Mitra"Important Books of 2008
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(in Hindi) meaning "a friend" received the Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhan Award in 2008. The book "Mitra" was included in the

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in 2010 as an important contemporary piece of South Asian literature and is widely distributed across many major libraries of the world. He currently lives in

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with his wife and a son.

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