Sahitya Academy fellows from Orissa: Poet Ramakanta Rath is the latest
Odia literature, Odisha personalities December 5th. 2009, 11:08amSo far there have been five Sahitya Academy fellows from Orissa. The latest is Ramakanta Rath, who received the fellowship this year. The list of five (extracted from wikipedia) are:
- 1971: Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1901–1991), Oriya poet, novelist, story writer, dramatist and essayist
- 1994: Kanhu Charan Mohanty (1906–1994), Oriya novelist
- 1996: Sachidananda Raut-Roy (1916–2004), Oriya short story writer and poet
- 2006: Manoj Das (1934), Oriya writer
- 2009: Ramakanta Rath (1934), Poet
At anytime there are at most 21 fellows. So currently there are two from Orissa.
Following is a report from Sambada on Ramakanta Rath receiving the fellowship.
There are three Jnanpith award winners from Orissa. They are:
- 1973 : Gopinath Mohanty for Paraja
- 1986 : Sachidananda Rout Roy
- 1993 : Sitakant Mahapatra
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