Dr Gayatribala Panda Nominated for Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award

Bhubaneswar: Well-known Odia poet and writer Dr Gayatribala Panda has been chosen to be conferred with the Sahitya Akademi Award for her poetry collection “Dayanadi”. Dr Gayatribala Panda will receive the prestigious award and Rs 1 lakh cash award at a special function to be held by Kendra Sahitya Akademi. Sahitya Akademi, announced its annual Sahitya Akademi Awards in 23 languages today. Kendra Sahitya Akademi awardwinning poetry collection “Dayanadi” was published in 2017 by Pakhigahara Publishing House. The poetry collection ‘Dayanadi’ for 2022 is based on the Kalinga War. It contains 64 poems including dedication and appendix. Earlier, she won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Youth Award in 2011 for her poetry collection “Gaan”. Noted Poet Dr Gayatribala Panda, who has gained considerable reader recognition by writing excerpts, stories, novels, articles and newspaper columns for three decades, has published 25 books so far. Among them, twelve collections of poems, two
collections of stories, two novels and one collection of essays have been published in Odia language. In addition, five collections of poems in Hindi and two collections of poems and one collection of stories have been published in English. Apart from this, she won the State Youth Award, Rajiv Gandhi Sadhavna Award, Utkal Sahitya Samaj Young Literary Award, Sharla Poetry Award, Kadambini Poetry Award, Fakir Mohan Sahitya Award, Basant Muduli Poetry Award, Manthan Young Poet Award, Lekhalekhi Young Poet Award, Time Pass Swayanshrii Award, Talpadeshwari Saraswat Honour, Istehsaar Poetry Award, Deepak Mishra Poetry Award. She has been honoured with many awards, such as Saraswat Award, Arjya Award, Kalinga Birangana Award, Bhanj Bharati Jaydev Sadangi Memorial Award, Times Power Women Award, and Akshay Sahitya Award. This prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award has been given to me not by me, but by my poetry book ‘Dayanidi’ and this award is the respect and goodwill of the readers, Dr Gayatribala said in her response and said that it will make her more responsible towards her writing. She
also said the blessings of Lord Jagannath, the good wishes of leading writers, motivation and the support of her family helped her achieve the feat. Born in 1977 in Sadeipur of Jagatsinghpur district, Dr Gayatribala is the daughter of Golak Bihari Panda and Arunima Panda, and the wife of Rajya Sabha MP Manas Ranjan Mangaraj.

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