Gopinath Mohanty
1914
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1991
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Country of citizenship: India, British Raj, Dominion of India
Native language: Odia
Languages spoken, written or signed: Odia
Educated at: Ravenshaw College, Patna University, Ravenshaw University
Occupation: writer, academic, civil servant
Award received: Jnanpith Award, Padma Bhushan, Sahitya Akademi Award
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Gopinath Mohanty (1914–1991), winner of the Jnanpith award, and the first winner of the National Sahitya Akademi Award 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." Source: Wikipedia (en)
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