Mamata Dash (''nee'' Mohapatra ; born 4 October 1947) is an Odia poet, writer and translator. She was awarded the

Odisha Sahitya Academy Award Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary award awarded to an Odia language litterateur for outstanding contribution to Odia literature in various categories by the Odisha Sahitya Akademi, an institution established in 1957 in Odisha for activ ...

for her poetry collection ''Ekatra Chandrasurya''.

Early life

Dash was born on 4 October 1947 at

Jagatsinghpur Jagatsinghpur is a town and a municipality in Jagatsinghpur district in the Indian state of Odisha. It is also the headquarters of Jagatsinghpur district. It got the recognition as a new district on 1 April 1993 formerly it was a sub-division ...

. Her father Ramachandra Mohapatra was a doctor. Her mother was Pankajmala. She had four sisters and three brothers. Her early education came at Jagatsinghpur before she moved to Ravenshaw Girls School, Cuttack. She started writing aged nine.

Works

Poetry collections

* ''Naimisharanya'' * ''Ekatra chandrasurjya'' * *''Nila Nirbapana'' *''Hiranyabarna'' *''Shubhradhara'' *''Mayandhakara'' *''Ujjwala Upabana'' *''Kabita Samagra(1st part)'' *''Raaga Lalita'' *''Shunya chitrayana''

Stories

*Anya Jagatara Sakala *Antarala Drushya *Arundhatira sandhya *Padma Purusha

Essays

*Ama Sahityare Shriradha bilasa *Atikramana *Aneka jharaka

Novels

*''Kehi Jane bishakha''

English

*''A moment beyond time'' *''Maker's of Indian literature -Bhubanaswara Behera''

Translation

*''Prathama Aloka'' *''Bohu Thakuranira Hats'' *''Chetanara Abhiyatra'' *''Bharatara punarjanma'' *''Shri Ma nka Agenda''

Recognition

, 1987 * Bhanuji Rao Award from Gangadhara Rath foundation * Bharata Naik Smriti Sammana from Sambalpur University, Odisha * Bishuba Sammana * Bharatiya Bhasa Parishada Award * Kalindi Charan smruti sammana * Sachi Rautray sammana * Sammana from Dharitri, Istahaar, Lekhaka samukhya, nilakain, Phakir Morgan Sahitya Sansada * Fellowship from Government of India (Department of culture)

References

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