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Gopinath Mohanty

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Indian (Odia) writer (1914-1991)

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Gopinath Mohanty (1914-1991), winner of the Jnanpith award, and the first winner of the National Sahitya Akademi Award of odia language in 1955 - for his novel, Amrutara Santana - was a prolific Odia writer of the mid-twentieth century.

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1973Jnanpith Award
1955Sahitya Akademi Award
Padma Bhushan

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Gopinath Mohanty (1914-1991), winner of the Jnanpith award, and the first winner of the National Sahitya Akademi Award of odia language in 1955 - for his novel, Amrutara Santana - was a prolific Odia writer of the mid-twentieth century. Satya Prakash Mohanty, professor of English, Cornell University says: "In my opinion, Gopinath Mohanty is the most important Indian novelist in the second half of the twentieth century."

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India
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Writers
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deceased
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Lived 1914 to 1991 · aged 77
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13 languages

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