Yashodhara Mishra

Indian writer and poet

Yashodhara Mishra

Born	1951 Sambalpur, Odisha, India
Occupation	Writer, poet
Language	Odia
Nationality	Indian
Notable awards	Sahitya Akademi Award (2020)

Dr. Yashodhara Mishra (born 1951) is a Odia writer and poet. She is a professor of English who has published poems, several collections of short stories and novels. She was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study.

Life

Mishra was born in Sambalpur in 1951. She is a poet and a professor of English who has published several collections of short stories and novels. She has worked in the Odia language, Hindi and English.^[1]

Mishra has garnered a number of awards including the Katha Prize Story award.^[2]

She is a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study where her research includes rituals and gender and the Women of Orissa.^[3]

Mishra won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Odia in 2020 for her book, Samudrakula Ghara.^[4]

Awards

2020: Sahitya Akademi Award, for Samudrakula Ghara

References

^ Yashodhara Mishra Archived 4 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, SamanvayIndianLangiagesFestival, Retrieved 11 July 2017.
^ Meenakshi Sharma; Geeta Dharmarajan (1997). Katha Prize Stories. Katha. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-81-85586-52-6.
^ Yashodhara Mishra, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Retrieved 11 July 2017.
^ "Sahitya Akademi announces 2020 Odia, Malayalam awards". The Hindu. 24 August 2021.

External links

"Odisha Sahitya Akademi". odishasahityaakademi.org. Archived from the original on 13 June 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2017.

Odia literature

Charya era

Luipa
Kanhupa
Saraha

Pre-Sarala era

Jayadeva
Viswanatha Kaviraja

Sarala era

Sarala Das

Poetry

Story and
Novel

Pre 1970	Gopinath Mohanty Kanhu Charan Mohanty Surendra Mohanty Manoj Das Chandra Sekhar Rath Shantanu Kumar Acharya Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo Rabi Pattnaik Jagannath Prasad Das Faturananda
Post 1970	Guru Prasad Mohanty Kailash Lenka Akshaya Mohanty Bibhuti Patnaik Pratibha Ray Jagadish Mohanty Kanheilal Dash Satya Mishra Ramachandra Behera Padmaja Pala Sarojini Sahoo Yashodhara Mishra Manorama Mohapatra

Drama

Gopal Chhotray
Manoranjan Das
Biswajit Das
Bijay Mishra
Karttika Chandra Rath

Children's literature

Research

Krishna Chandra Panigrahi

Science fiction

v t e Sahitya Akademi Award for Odia
1955–1975	Gopinath Mohanty (1955) Kanhu Charan Mohanty (1958) Godabarish Misra (1961) Sachidananda Routray (1962) Nilakantha Das (1964) Baikunthanath Patnaik (1965) Godabarish Mohapatra (1966) Suryanarayan Das (1967) Surendra Mohanty (1969) Binod Chandra Nayak (1970) Manoranjan Das (1971) Manoj Das (1972) Guru Prasad Mohanty (1973) Sitakanta Mohapatra (1974) Radha Mohan Gadanayak (1975)
1976–2000	Kishori Charan Das (1976) Kalicharan Patnaik (1977) Ramakanta Rath (1978) Kunjabihari Das (1979) Ananta Patnaik (1980) Akhilmohan Patnaik (1981) Gopal Chhotray (1982) Harekrushna Mahatab (1983) Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo (1984) Rajendra Kishore Panda (1985) Soubhagya Kumar Misra (1986) Nityananda Mohapatra (1987) Sourindra Barik (1988) Bhanuji Rao (1989) Beenapani Mohanty (1990) Jagannath Prasad Das (1991) Rabi Pattnayak (1992) Santanu Kumar Acharya (1993) Guru Charan Patnaik (1994) Govind Chandra Udgata (1995) Satyanarayana Rajguru (1996) Chandrasekhar Rath (1997) Chittaranjan Das (1998) Haraprasad Das (1999) Pratibha Ray (2000)
2001–present	Pratibha Satpathy (2001) Sarat Kumar Mohanty (2002) Jatindra Mohan Mohanty (2003) Prafulla Kumar Mohanty (2004) Ramachandra Behera (2005) Bansidhar Sarangi (2006) Deepak Mishra (2007) Pramod Kumar Mohanty (2008) Phani Mohanty (2009) Pathani Pattnaik (2010) Kalpanakumari Devi (2011) Gourahari Das (2012) Bijay Mishra (2013) Gopal Rath (2014) Bibhuti Patnaik (2015) Paramita Satpathy (2016) Gayatri Saraf (2017) Dasarathi Das (2018) Tarun Kanti Mishra (2019) Yashodhara Mishra (2020) Hrushikesh Mallick (2021) Gayatribala Panda (2022)