Jayanta Mahapatra  (ଜୟନ୍ତ ମହାପାତ୍ର)
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poèmes

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Hunger anglais

Deaths in Orissa anglais

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Traveler anglais

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A Grey Haze Over the Ricefields anglais

Of that Love anglais

Myth anglais

Genesis anglais

A Missing Person anglais

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Jayanta Mahapatra  ଜୟନ୍ତ ମହାପାତ୍ର
Author

* 22.10.1928, Cuttack, Inde
Réside à: Cuttack, Inde

Jayanta Mahapatra, born on 22 October 1928 in Cuttack, belongs to a lower middle-class family. His early education was already conducted in English. After his Master's Degree in Physics in 1949, he worked as a teacher and served in different Government colleges of Orissa.

Jayanta Mahapatra began writing poems rather late in comparison with his contemporaries. But this late beginning does not in anyway distort his achievement. His poems have appeared in most of the reputed journals of the world. He received various prestigious Indian and international Awards for his poetic works.

The richness and sophistication of language, the softness and delicacy of the words chosen, systematized orchestration of authenticated experiences through the exact palpability of images, the sincerity of harping on the 'feel' of the experiences rather than on their 'thought', the sweetness of music emerging from a fountain-like flow of the verse-form contribute to the greatness and ingenuity of Mohapatra's poetry.

Publications
  • A Rain of Rites

    Athens, USA: University of Georgia Press, 1976

  • Waiting

    New Dehli: Samkaleen Prakshan, 1979

  • Dispossessed Nests

    New Dehli: Nirala Publications, 1986

  • A Whiteness of Bone

    New Dehli: Viking Penguin, 1992

  • Baya Raja

    Cuttack: Vidyapuri, 1997

  • Bare Face

    Kottayam: D.C. Books, 2000

  • Tikie Chhayee

    Cuttack: Vidyapuri, 2001

  • Random Descent

    Bhubaneswar: Third Eye Communications, 2005

  • Chali

    Cuttack: Vidyapuri, 2006

Prix
  • 1970 International Who´s Who in Poetry London

  • 1975 Jacob Gladstein Memorial Award Chicago

  • 1980 Japan Foundation Visitors Award

  • 1981 Sahitya Akademi Award

  • 1990 Scottish International Open Poetry Competition

  • 1994 Gangadhar National Award for Poetry