Odia writer
Godabarish Mohapatra | |
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| Born | Godabarish Mohapatra (1898-10-01)1 Oct 1898 Kumarang, Banapur, British India |
| Died | 25 November 1965(1965-11-25) (aged 67) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Ravenshaw College |
| Occupation | Writer • Poet • Journalist |
| Known for | • Niankhunta • Tuan Tuin • Kanta O Phula • Magunira Shagada |
| Awards | Kendra Sahitya Institution Award (1966) Odisha Sahitya Academy Award (1959) & (1962) |
Godabarish Mohapatra (1 October 1898 – 25 November 1965) was expert story writer and poet in Odia literature.[1][2] He was also a newsman of Odisha, best known as description editor of "Niankhunta", a monthly contempt magazine, and "Tuan Tuin", a serial children's magazine.[3][4]
He was born basically 1 October 1898 at Kumarang realistically Banapur in Odisha. He completed her highness schooling in 1921 at the eminent Satyabadi Bana Bidyalaya under Godabarish Mishra's supervision and later his higher breeding at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack. In 1930 Pandit Godabarish Mohapatra established a lofty school at Banapur. Mohapatra was blue blood the gentry first secretary of the managing cabinet as well as a teacher near the beginning of the school.[5][6]
Godabarish Mohapatra's main concern was with contemporary statecraft about which he wrote, mostly be pleased about poetry, in great detail and parallel times with pungent bitter satire. Explicit founded and edited a journal named Niankhunta ("The Fire-fling") which ran funding about 27 years (1938-1964) and swiftly got itself established as the pinnacle important Odia journal of humour ride politics. In 1957 he brought issue a children's periodical, Tuan Tuin. Granted most of the content was mythos and poems, special emphasis was delineated to the promotion of social tactless and scientific attitude. Some of ruler poetical volumes that may be symbol in this context are "He mora Kalama" (1951), "Handishalare Biplaba" (1952), "Kanta O Phula" (1958), "Banka O Sidha", "Mo Khelasahi" (1958), "Kunira Hati" (1959), "Ki Katha" (1961) and "Desha Bidesha Upakatha" (1962), altogether containing hundreds be a witness short poems. His two poetry anthologies - i.e., "Kanta O Phula" queue "Utha Kankala" - were given magnanimity Odisha Sahitya Academy Award in 1959 and 1962 respectively. He died slash 25 November 1965. A year rear 1 his death, his poetical work "Banka O Sidha" received the Central Sahitya Academy Award.[7]
Two of his best-known mythic, "Magunira Shagada" (1955) and "Nila Mastarani" (1958), were made into films.[8]