Dr. Yashodhara Mishra (born 1951) is a Odia writer and poet. She is a professor of English who has published poems, several collections of short stories and novels. She was a fellow at the

Indian Institute of Advanced Study The Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) is a research institute located in Shimla, India. It was set up by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 1964 and started functioning from 20 October 1965. History and establishment The ...

Life

Mishra was born in

Sambalpur Sambalpur () is the fifth largest city in the Indian State of Odisha. It is located on the banks of river Mahanadi, with a population of 335,761 (as per 2011 census). Prehistoric settlements have been recorded there. It is the home of the Sam ...

in 1951. She is a poet and a professor of English who has published several collections of short stories and novels. She has worked in the Odia language, Hindi and English.Yashodhara Mishra
SamanvayIndianLangiagesFestival, Retrieved 11 July 2017. Mishra has garnered a number of awards including the Katha Prize Story award. She is a fellow at the

where her research includes rituals and gender and the Women of Orissa.Yashodhara Mishra
Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Retrieved 11 July 2017. Mishra won the

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 ...

for Odia in 2020 for her book, ''Samudrakula Ghara''.

Awards

* 2020:

, for ''Samudrakula Ghara''

References

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