Sachidananda Routray (13 May 1916 – 21 August 2004) was an Indian poet, novelist and short-story writer who wrote in
Odia. He received
Jnanpith Award
The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian w ...
, the highest literary award of India, in 1986. He was popularly known as Biplabi Kabi (''revolutionary poet'') Sachi Routray.
Life
Routray was born in
Gurujang, near
Khurda
Khordha is a town and a municipality area in Khordha district in the Indian state of Odisha. Bhubaneswar, is the capital of Odisha located within the Khordha district and is only 25 km from Khordha town. Odisha State Highway 1 and Nationa ...
on 13 May 1916. He was brought up and educated in
Bengal
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. He married a
Telugu
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princess from the royal family of Golapalli.
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Routray started writing poems from the age of eleven.][ He was also involved in freedom struggle while in school. Some of his poems were banned by ]British Raj
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or Direct rule in India,
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for revolutionary content. He died in Cuttack
Cuttack (, or officially Kataka ) in Odia is the former capital and the second largest city in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the headquarters of the Cuttack district. The name of the city is an anglicised form of ''Kataka'' which literally ...
on 21 August 2004.[
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Works
He started his writing career through " patheya " (1st poetry) in 1932.In 1943, Routray became very famous among Odia readers when he published ''Baji Rout'', a long poem that celebrated the martyrdom of a boatman boy who succumbed to the bullets of British police when he refused to take them in his rickety boat to cross the river Brahmani. He was a prolific poet and published as many as twenty anthologies. His ''Pallishri'', dealing with village life in Odisha
Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...
, is as successful as his poem ''Pratima Nayak'' that portrays the suffering and the predicament of a city girl. He belonged to a group of writers who called themselves 'poets of the people'.[
Routray also published a few poems with religion as their theme.
"Chhota Mora Gan Ti" was written by Routray. This topic is now taught by most of the teachers in Odisha.
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Awards and recognitions
* Padmashree in 1962.[
* ]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 ...
in 1963 for the poetry ''Kabita-1962''.
* Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1965.[
* ]Jnanpith Award
The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian w ...
in 1986.
See also
* List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Odia
The Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's national academy of letters, to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it, as well as for translations. No awards were given in 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 19 ...
* Jnanpith Award
The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian w ...
References
External links
Odia poetry page in Odisha Government Portal
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1916 births
2004 deaths
Poets from Odisha
Indian male poets
Odia-language poets
Odia-language writers
Recipients of the Jnanpith Award
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Odia
Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education
20th-century Indian poets
People from Khordha district
20th-century Indian male writers